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Paleolithic
Leaf-Shaped Flint Point
c. 16,000 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Levantine
Libation Bowl with Bulls
c. 600 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Libation Vase of Gudea
c. 2150 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Egyptian
Lid of a Canopic Jar
c. 1340-1335 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Native American
Lidded Basket
c. 1750-1800, Historiska Museet, Lund

 

African
Lidded Box
c. 1900-1950, National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.

 

Oceanic
Lime Spatula Dance Ornament
c. 1900-1950, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Italian
Lira da Braccio with a Monster Head
1511, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

Islamic
The Madrid Casket
c. 1049-1050, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

 

Egyptian
Magical Wand
c. 1981-1640 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Aegean
Marble Conical Rhyton
c. 1625-1450 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Italian
Marriage Casket
c. 1415-1425, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

Oceanic
Mask from Oba, Vanuatu
before 1894, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Greek
Megarian Bowl and Mold
c. 300-100 BCE, Agora Museum, Athens

 

Roman
Menorah, from the Hammath Tiberias A Synagogue
c. 300-500, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

Islamic
Mirror Case lacquered with Birds and Flowers
1739-1740, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

 

Levantine
Mold for Casting a Figurine of a Horned Goddess
c. 2000 BCE, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

   

Italian
The Morgan Casket
c. 1000-1200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

American
The Morgan Vase
c. 1886, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning

 

Egyptian
Mummy Cover of Henutmehyt, Priestess of Amun
c. 1300-1200 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Egyptian
Mummy Mask and Body Covering
c. 2465-2150 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Egyptian
Mummy Mask of a Man
c. 300-100 BCE, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

 

Egyptian
Mummy Mask of a Man
c. 50, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

 

Egyptian
Mummy of a Man Named Demetrios
c. 95-100, Brooklyn Museum

 

Egyptian
Mummy of Amenhotep I
c. 1525-1504 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Egyptian
Mummy Portrait of a Woman
c. 150, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Egyptian
Mummy Wrapping of a Young Boy
c. 100-120, British Museum, London

   

Dutch
Nautilus Cup
c. 1630-1660, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

 

Dutch
Nautilus Vase
after 1652, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Native American
Net Gauge
before 1900, Burke Museum, Seattle

 

Paleolithic
Ochre Palette and Crayons
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit

 

Egyptian
Ointment Jar with Nubian Servant Girl
c. 1570-1314 BCE, Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art, Durham

 

Italian
Oliphant
c. 1000-1200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Mesopotamian
Onyx Sceptre
after 500 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Viking
The Oseberg Ship
c. 815-820, Vikingskiphuset, Oslo

         

Aegean
Oval Bowl
c. 2700-2500 BCE, private collection

 

Native American
Overcoat (Kamleika)
c. 1824-1827, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Neolithic Mesopotamian
Painted Bowl from Tall-i-Bakun
c. 4000 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Neolithic Mesopotamian
Painted Footed Beaker
c. 3500 BCE, Tehran Museum, Tehran

 

Islamic
Painted Lorry
1886, Lahore

 

Celtic
Pair of Bronze Wine Flagons
c. 400-350 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Native American
Pair of Parfleche Cases
c. 1870, private collection

 

Bohemian
Parade Saddle with Courtly Figures
c. 1425-1450, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Native American
Parfleche Case
c. 1850, private collection

 

Byzantine
Paten with the Communion of the Apostles
c. 565-78, Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington D.C.

 

Egyptian
Pesesh-Kef (Ritual Implement for the Opening of the Mouth)
c. 3300-3100 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Paleolithic
Pierced Baton with Bison Head
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée Départemental de l'Airege, Foix

 

Native American
Pipe
c. 1840-1850, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Native American
Pipe
before 1831, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Native American
Pipe
c. 1800-1850, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

African
Pipe Bowl and Stem
before 1900, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren

 

Native American
Pipe in the Form of a Ship
c. 1820-1830, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

American
Pipe Tomahawk
c. 1770, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown

 

Native American
Pipe Tomahawk
c. 1770-1780, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Native American
Pipe with Bear and Raven
c. 1820-1830, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque Dedicating Property to a Nabu Temple
c. 721-705 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque from Ur with Libation Scenes
c. 2500-2400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Levantine
Plaque with a Winged Sphinx
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

   

Persian
Plate with a King Hunting Lions
c. 500-700, British Museum, London

 

Byzantine
Plate with Shepherd, Two Goats and a Dog
c. 530, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

French
Pocketbook
c. 1700-1800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Native American
Polychrome Basketry Olla
c. 1890-1900, private collection

 

German
Portable Altar and Reliquary of Saint Andrew's Sandal
977-993, Trier Cathedral Treasury

 

German
Portable Altar of Gertrude
c. 1030, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Native American
Portrait Pipe
c. 1830-1860, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Celtic
Pottery Beaker with Engraved Decoration
c. 450-400 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Native American
Pouch with Underwater Panthers
before 1840, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Mesopotamian
Pouring Vessel with Relief Decoration
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Native American
Powhatan's Mantle
before 1638, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

Byzantine
The Projecta Casket
c. 330-380, British Museum, London

 

Anglo-Saxon
Purse Cover from the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
c. 600-650, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Pyxis
969-970, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Levantine
Pyxis Lid with Griffins and Sphinxes
c. 1400-1300 BCE, Direction Generale des Antiquites, Beirut

 

Islamic
Pyxis of al'Mughira
968, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Byzantine
Pyxis with Christ, the Virgin, and Archangels
c. 500-700, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Mesopotamian
Pyxis with Musicians, Trees, and a Goddess
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

English
The Queen Elizabeth Virginal
c. 1570, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Native American
Quilled Box
before 1827, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Native American
Rattle
c. 1850-1880, private collection

 

Native American
Rattle
before 1900, Burke Museum, Seattle

 

Native American
Raven Rattle
before 1900, Burke Museum, Seattle

 

Italian
Rebec with a Medici Venus Decoration
c. 1400-1500, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

Aegean
Reconstructed Boar's Tusk Helmet
13th c BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Aegean
Reconstructed Boar's Tusk Helmet
c. 1500-1300 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Egyptian
Relief on the Mace of the Scorpion King
4000-3200 BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

French
Reliquary Casket from Champagnat
c. 1150, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Anglo-Saxon
Reliquary Casket from Quedlinburg
c. 930, Stifskirche, Quedlinburg

 

German
Reliquary in the Form of a Ball
c. 1160-1180, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

Spanish
Retablo, Church of San Jose, Laguna Pueblo
c. 1760-1846, Church of San Jose, Laguna Pueblo

   

Egyptian
Rhomboidal Palette
before 3100 BCE, Myers Museum, Windsor

 

Mesopotamian
Ritual Vase decorated with Animals in Relief
c. 3000 BC, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Roman
Rock Crystal Lamp in the Shape of a Fish
c. 400-500, Treasury of San Marco, Venice

 

Aegean
Rock Crystal Rhyton from Zakros
c. 1500 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

   

Pre-Columbian
Rubber Ball
c. 1600-1500 BCE, Centro INAH Veracruz

 

Pre-Columbian
Sacrificial Knife
c. 1400-1521, British Museum, London

   

French
Saddle given to Charles XI of Sweden by Louis XIV of France
1673, Livrustkammaren, Stockholm

 

Roman
Samagher Casket (Pola Casket)
c. 450, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice

 

Aegean
Sanctuary Rhyton
1550-1450 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

   

Roman
Sarcophagus of Dionysus and Ariadne
c. 235, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Egyptian
Sarcophagus of Rameses III
c. 1184-1153, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Sarcophagus of the Muses
c. 150-160, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Sarcophagus with the Wedding feast of Dionysus and Ariadne (Casali Sarcophagus)
c. 150-200, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

 

Aegean
Sauceboat (Phiale)
c. 2500-2000 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Scarlet Ware Vessel
c. 2800 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

   

French
Sceptre of Charles V of France
1365-1380, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Egyptian
Scribal Palette of Merire
c. 1400-1390 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Scyphus from Boscoreale with Augustus among Gods and Personifications
c. 15-20, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Native American
Sea Otter Harpoon Head
before 1800, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Swiss
The Seedorf Shield
12th-13th, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich

 

Oceanic
Shark Hook (Makau Manō)
c. 1700-1800, private collection

 

Pre-Columbian
Shield
c. 1500, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

Viking
Shield
c. 850-900, Kulturhistorisk Museum, Oslo

 

Austrian
Shield of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary
15th, Musée de l'Armee, Paris

 

Italian
Shield with Arms of the Foscarini Family
c. 1550-1600, Palazzo Ducale, Venice

 

Native American
Shoulder Bag
c. 1820-1830, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Egyptian
The Sickle of Amunemhat
c. 1479-1425 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Mesopotamian
Silver Head of a Lion
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Aegean
Silver-Gilt Bowl
c. 725-675 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Byzantine
Situla with Hunting Scene
c. 500-600, Benaki Museum, Athens

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower in the form of a Bird
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower with Confronted Ibexes
c. 16,000-11,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

   

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower with Ibex
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower with Ibex or Deer
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower with Leaping Horse
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Spearheads from Lascaux Cave
c. 15000-10000 BCE

 

Native American
Spindle Whorl
before 1900, Burke Museum, Seattle

 

Central Asian
Spoon with Animal Decoration
c. 600-400 BCE, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana

 

Mesopotamian
Spouted Cup
c. 2550-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Mesopotamian
Stamp Seal in the Form of a Reclining Bull
c. 3200-2900 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Mesopotamian
Stamp Seal showing a Priest and Altar
6th c BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Stamp Seal showing Four Cult Scenes
6th c BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

German
Standing Cup
c. 1600-1700, British Museum, London

 

Aegean
Steatite Rhyton from Hagia Triada
c. 1550-1500 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Roman
Stele dedicated to Cybele Matyene
c. 100-200, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Aegean
Stirrup Jar from Makresia
14th c BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Stone Bowl with Heroes and Animals
c. 2600-2400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Native American
Storage Basket
c. 1850, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Viking
Sword Hilt with Silver Fittings
c. 900-1000

 

Frankish
The Tassilo Chalice
777-788

 

Oceanic
Tattoo Chisel (Uhi Matarau)
c. 1800-1850, private collection

 

Italian
The Throne of Abbot Elia, Bari
c. 1100, San Nicola, Bari

 

Native American
Thunderer Pouch
c. 1800-1850, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Native American
Tobacco Bag
c. 1880, private collection

 

Native American
Tobacco Bag with Pipe Stem Sleeve
c. 1870, private collection

 

Greek
Tomb at Lefkadia
c. 300 BCE

   

Islamic
Tortosa Casket
c. 1175-1200, Tesoro de la Catedral de Tortosa, Tortosa

 

Roman
Trees Sarcophagus
c. 360, Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence Antiques, Arles

 

Aegean
Tripod Rhyton with Bull and Deer Heads
12th c BCE, Archaeological Museum, Chora Triphyllias

   

Italian
Two Altar Candlesticks
c. 1150-1250, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

Roman
Urn of a Young Soldier
c. 40-70, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Uruk Vase (Warka Vase)
c. 3,300-3,000 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

           

Neolithic Mesopotamian
Vase in the form of a Porcupine
c. 4500 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Mesopotamian
Vase with Bands of Palm Tree Ornament
c. 2700-2350 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Oceanic
Vayola War Shield
before 1900, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Byzantine
Veroli Casket
c. 950, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

     

Pre-Columbian
Vertical Drum (Huehuetl)
c. 1500, Museo de Antropología e Historia del Estado de Mexico, Toluca

 

Greek
Vessel with the Head of Herakles
c. 340-310 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki

 

Viking
Wagon from the Oseberg Ship
c. 815-20, Vikingskiphuset, Oslo

 

Native American
Wall Pocket
c. 1800, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

 

Islamic
Wall Revetment from a House
c. 800-900, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Native American
War Club
c. 1675, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown

   

Native American
War Club
before 1839, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Native American
War Club
before 1800, Burke Museum, Seattle

 

Oceanic
Water Bottle (Ipu Hue Wai Pāwehe)
c. 1700-1800, private collection

 

African
Water Pipe
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

Aegean
Weight with Octopus Relief
c. 1550-1450 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Mesopotamian
Woman at the Window Plaque from Nimrud
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Zamora Pyxis
c. 964, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

 

Hobart Alter [American, born 1933]
Surfboard for Chuck Quinn
c. 1961, Surfing Heritage Foundation, San Clemente

 

Angokwazhuk (Happy Jack) [Native American, 1875 – 1918]
Engraved Walrus Tusk with Jewish New Year's Greeting
1910, Jewish Museum, New York

 

Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott [English, 1865 – 1945] and Charles Robert Ashbee [English, 1863 – 1942]
Manxman Pianoforte
1897, Art Institute of Chicago

   

Peter Behrens [German, 1868 – 1940]
Lamp Design for AEG
1907

 

Attributed to Berlin Painter [Greek, active c. 500 BCE – c. 460 BCE]
Attic Amphora with a Reveler
c. 490 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Carrie Bethel [Native American, 1898 – 1974]
Large Basket Storage Jar
1929, private collection

 

Marianne Brandt [German, 1893 – 1984]
Samovar (Water Kettle and Tripod Stand)
1925, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge

 

Edward Burne-Jones [English, 1833 – 1898] and Kate Faulkner [English, active 1861 – 1898]
Grand Piano
1884-1885, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

   

Coco Chanel (Gabrielle Chanel) [French, 1883 – 1971] and Julien-Henri Viard [French, active 1900 – 1938]
Chanel No. 5 Bottle and Case
1921, private collection

 

Coëtivy Master [French, active c. 1450 – 1480]
Knife with the Arms of the Renier Family of Venice
c. 1550, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Walter Crane [English, 1845 – 1915]
Wallpaper Set: Alcestis, La Margarett, Lily, and Dove
c. 1875-1876, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Attributed to Salvador Dalí [Spanish, 1904 – 1989]
Cigarette Holder
1941, private collection

 

Fra Damiano Zambelli [Italian, c. 1490 – c. 1549]
Marquetry Panel from the Chateau de la Bastie d' Urfe
1545-1549, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Donald Deskey [American, 1894 – 1989]
Cigarette Box
c. 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof [Dutch, 1866 – 1924]
Binding for Kunst et Samenleving (Art and Society) by Walter Crane
1893, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Christopher Dresser [English, 1834 – 1904]
Crow's-Foot Decanter with Amphora Shaped Body
1879, private collection

   

Christopher Dresser [English, 1834 – 1904]
Cruet Set
1878, private collection

 

Christopher Dresser [English, 1834 – 1904]
Decanter
c. 1880, private collection

 

Christopher Dresser [English, 1834 – 1904]
Decanter
c. 1879, private collection

 

Christopher Dresser [English, 1834 – 1904]
Decanter
c. 1879, private collection

 

Christopher Dresser [English, 1834 – 1904]
Oil and Vinegar Cruet Set
1878, private collection

 

Follower of Christopher Dresser [English, 1834 – 1904]
Steel and Brass Gasolier
c. 1870, Geffrye Museum of the Home, London

 

Christopher Dresser [English, 1834 – 1904]
Toast Rack
1881, private collection

 

Jean Dunand [Swiss, 1877 – 1942]
Dresser Set
c. 1925-1930, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 

Jean Dunand [Swiss, 1877 – 1942]
Vase
c. 1925, private collection

 

Charles Eames [American, 1907 – 1978] and Ray Eames [American, 1916 – 1988]
Leg Splint
c. 1942-1942, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

   

George Grant Elmslie [American, 1872 – 1952]
Table Cover
1910

 

Workshop of Baldassare Embriachi [Italian, active c. 1390 – 1409]
Casket
c. 1400, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Baldassare Embriachi [Italian, active c. 1390 – 1409]
The Sainte-Chapelle Casket
c. 1390, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Max Ernst [German, 1891 – 1976]
Chess Set and Board
1944, private collection

 

Exekias [Greek, active 540 BCE – 520 BCE]
Kylix with the Voyage of Dionysus
c. 540-530 BCE, Staatliche Antikensammlung, Munich

     

Francesco di Giorgio Martini [Italian, 1439 – 1501] and Baccio Pontelli [Italian, c. 1450 – after 1492]
Basket of Fruit and Squirrel
c. 1450-1500, Ducal Palace, Urbino

 

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