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A work made of gold, enamel, and baroque pearls.

Pendant Shaped as a Dragon, c. 1575-c. 1600

A work made of wood, gessoed and lacquered with polychrome decoration and gilding.

Door, c. 1750

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A work made of gold, chalcedony, enamel, pearls, and glass.

Cameo of Venus and Cupid, Probably a Hat Badge Mounted as a Pendant, c. 1500-c. 1550 (cameo and frame); c. 1575-c. 1600 (pendant)

Wallpaper panel depicting a colorful scene of a fashionably dressed woman with two men and a child, walking along embankment with a cityscape at the background.

Wallpaper Panel, Early 19th century

A work made of hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding.

Clock, 1727–30

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

A work made of steel, brass, wood, and silk textie.

Glaive of the Bodyguard of August I, Elector of Saxony, 1580

A work made of double-sided drawing of soot and saliva, applied with sharpened stick and smudging, on found card, creased (unfolded box).

Untitled, n.d.

James Castle

Glass flagon with rounded body decorated with etchings and long neck topped with pewter mounts.

Flagon, 18th century

A work made of hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding.

Oval Dish, c. 1770

A work made of wood, iron, and paint.

Shield (Targone) for the Gioco del Ponte, 1776

A work made of steel, gilding, and brass.

Morion-Burgonet, 1585

A work made of cover: bound in leather, tooled, applied gold and black pigment; interior: ink, gold and opaque watercolor on paper.

Divan of Hafiz, Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), 16th century, dated c. 1540–1550

Islamic

A work made of porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding.

Teapot Stand, c. 1815

Wedgwood Manufactory

A work made of soft-paste porcelain and polychrome enamels.

Tureen in the form of a Rabbit, 1755–56

Chelsea Porcelain Factory

A work made of steel, brass, iron, wood, horn, and mother-of-pearl.

Baltic Snaplock Rifle, 1610/50

Blue wallpaper decorated with pink flowers and figural scenes of a semi-naked lady surrounded by two other females a cupid.

Wall Panel: Toilette of Venus, 18th century

A work made of steel, silver, wood, and coral.

Basket-Hilted Broadsword (Schiavona), 1775/1800

A work made of steel, iron, and paint.

Spider Helmet, 1650/1700

A work made of two panels joined: wool, plain weave; fulled; appliqued with silk, plain weave ribbons; applied hide with beadwork and ribbon and hide streamers.

Elonshka Society Blanket, Late 19th–early 20th century

Osage

Red stoneware bottle decorated with reliefs of dragons on cylindrical neck and flowers on spherical body. The vessel's left shoulder has a projecting dragon head.

Bottle (Kendi), c. 1710

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

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