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Miniature room featuring wide-plank hardwood floors, round hooked rugs, simple wooden furnishings, and a wood-burning stove. The window frames and door frames are painted green, while the walls are a light butter yellow.

A18: Shaker Living Room, c. 1800, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk floss and metal-alloy-strip-wrapped silk in chain stitches; applied paillettes; loop and ball fastenings; edged with applied braid; embroidered areas lined with cotton, plain weave.

Aba (Dress for Child or Young Woman), 19th or early 20th century

A work made of steel with gilding, iron, brass, leather, and cord.

Armor for Field and Tournament, c. 1540/60 with later etching

Jörg T. Sorg, the Younger

A work made of pen and brown ink, with colored crayons and charcoal applied with stump, over graphite, on blue-gray laid paper (discolored to brown).

Study for La Coiffure, 1906

Pablo Picasso

A work made of gelatin silver print, with applied color.

The Pyramid of the USSR, 1997

Valera Cherkashin

Earthenware bottle with a long neck and domed cover topped with a circular element. The vessel decorated with flowers and birds in blue and white.

Bottle, c. 1678-85

Grieksche A Factory

A work made of gelatin silver print with applied coloring.

A Picture Library, 1916

Wallace Nutting

A work made of silver gilt, rock crystal, textile, and human remains.

Reliquary Monstrance with a Tooth of Saint John the Baptist, 1433; container: 900/1200

Weddeghe Velstede

A work made of gelatin silver print with applied coloring.

Untitled, 1945

Unknown Maker

Miniature dining room with mint-green walls and two large windows on the back wall, between which hangs a portrait of a Revolutionary-era man flanked by two vases. A formal wooden table with two chairs sits in the room's center, a fireplace with a mirror on the mantle and two tall stools at left.

A10: Massachusetts Dining Room, 1795, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of soot and saliva, applied with sharpened stick and smudging (recto and verso) on ivory card.

Untitled (recto and verso), n.d.

James Castle

A work made of glass.

Paperweight, c. 1870

A work made of soot and saliva, applied with sharpened stick and smudging, on found paper.

Untitled, 1950/77

James Castle

To-scale great room with a double-height ceiling. The bottom half of each wall is clad in elaborately carved wooden panels. The right wall features a tall bay window, the left a fireplace flanked by suits of armor. A long, rustic table with bench is centered in the room.

E-1: English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of illustrated with photographs and diagrams, two-color decorated wrappers, housed within modern gilt-lettered leather box.

De Toegepaste kunsten in Nederland (The Applied Arts in the Netherlands), 1932-1935

Richard Roland Holst

A work made of qingbai ware; glazed porcelain with underglaze applied decoration.

Stemcup with Pearl-Edged Lobes and Central Floret, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)

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

Trumpet Player, c. 1760/70

Vienna State Porcelain Manufactory

A work made of earthenware with incised and applied decoration.

Jar (Guan), Style of Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1050 B.C.)

Porcelain soup bowl with fruit and floral decorations painted in enamel color and molded scalloped edge with a golden border.

Soup Bowl, c. 1750

An interior space with sliding panel doors at right leading to a glimpse of outdoor greenery. Pale wooden shelves and trim line the room, which features pale blue walls and minimal furniture.

E-31: Japanese Traditional Interior, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne