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A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk in chain, satin, single satin and stem stitches; french knot.

Fragment, 1775/80

Philippe de La Salle

A work made of bronze.

Biconical Bead, Geometric Period (800–600 BCE)

Ancient Greek

A work made of steel.

Combination Primer-Spanner-Ramrod, 1600/20

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk, peacock-feather-wrapped silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper in surface satin stitches; laid work and couching; appliquéd with forms of silk, plain weaves between two layers of paper, some with gold- and silver-leaf-over-lacquered paper, and embroidered with silk in chain and knot stitches, needle looping with laid thread and darned bars, and silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, laid work and couching; edged with cotton, plain weave; lined with ramie, plain weave; metal button.

Vestment for a First-Degree Taoist Priest, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th century; inscribed 1793

Han-Chinese

A work made of silk and cotton, pieced plain, twill and satin weaves; some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts; some self-patterned by main ground or complementary ground wefts; some with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet, cut and uncut solid velvet, cut and uncut voided velvet, cut solid stamped velvet and 'velours au sabre'; some printed painted or warp painted (chiné); some (moiré); one appliqué with silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; embroidered with silk in buttonhole, chain, detached chain, feather, double feather, herringbone, stem, straight and sheaf stitch variations; some stitches interlaced; french knots; lined with silk 7:1 satin weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave and ground weft floats.

'Crazy Quilt', 1875/80

A work made of charcoal, with oiled charcoal, heightened with traces of white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper.

Reclining Nude, 1600/20

Workshop of Domenico Tintoretto

A work made of etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper.

Two of a Kind, plate five from Los Caprichos, 1797/99

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper.

Wait till You've Been Anointed, plate 67 from Los Caprichos, 1797/99

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of various.

Patti Adams Shriner, House and Studio, Number 2, 1928

Bruce Goff

A work made of collotype, pl. xx from the album "illustrations of china and its people, volume i" (1873).

Physic Street, Canton, c. 1868

John Thomson

A work made of collotype, pl. xx from the album "illustrations of china and its people, volume ii" (1873).

Part of Foochow Foreign Settlement; Terracing Hills; Foochow Field Women; A Memorial Arch, c. 1868

John Thomson

A work made of etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper.

Is It Better To Be Lazy?, plate 73 from Los Caprichos, 1797/99

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of gelatin silver print, no. 20, from the portfolio "arthur rothstein" (1981).

Boy with Chicken, Hungjao, China, 1945

Arthur Rothstein

A work made of etching with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper.

The Two Doorways, 1879/80

James McNeill Whistler

A work made of bronze.

Spiral Fibula, Geometric Period (800–700 BCE)

Ancient Greek

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the Hero Herakles with the Features of Alexander the Great, 336-323 BCE

Ancient Roman

A work made of etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper.

That certainly is being able to read, plate 29 from Los Caprichos, 1797/99

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

Chancellerie, 1718/20

Manufacture Royale de Beauvais

A work made of linen, plain weave; screenprinted.

Facade (Furnishing Fabric), 1952

Angelo Testa

A work made of relief print on paper.

El cancionero popular, num. 20 (The Popular Songbook, no. 20), n.d.

Unknown artist

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