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An abstracted work made of irregular pieces of stretched canvas bonded together, creating a funnel shape that protrudes out to form a dark hole.

Untitled, 1960

Lee Bontecou

A work made of terracotta, white-ground.

Lekythos (Oil Jar), 445-440 BCE

Achilles Painter

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 wood and pigment.

Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun), Early/mid–20th century

Yoruba

Wooden chair with numerous spindles arranged close together to make a cube.

Spindle Cube Chair, 1902–6

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of oil on canvas.

After a Summer Shower, 1894

George Inness

A work made of oil on canvas.

Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony), 1880

John Singer Sargent

A somewhat abstract, textured painting in shades of gray, brown, and orange suggesting an endless expanse of scorched, cratered earth traversed by thin lines receding diagonally into the horizon.

The Order of the Angels (Die Ordnung der Engel), 1983/84

Anselm Kiefer

A tall, skinny stoneware vase in red, with a shiney, polished finish.

Bottle, 1962

Gertrud Natzler

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Nigatsu Hall, Nara (Nara Nigatsudo), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)", 1921

Kawase Hasui

Expressive painting with an almost blurry effect of three women dressed in black and white examining and cutting large pieces of fabric.

Shop Girls, c. 1912

Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones

A head-shaped tan and red-orange ceramic vessel with a round, expressionless face atop two squat feet, darker markings around the eyes and down the cheeks.

Abstract Portrait Vessel of a Ruler with Painted Face Resting on Feet, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A small statue consisting of a multicolored rectangular base and a painted mummified figure oriented vertically, wearing an elaborate striped headdress with a plume.

Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

Dark stone sculpture of Buddha sitting cross-legged, hands in lap, eyes closed.

Buddha Shakyamuni Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra), Chola period, about 12th century

A work made of gouache on board.

Above the Earth, 1953

Mark Tobey

A work made of oak.

Desk and Bookcase, 1893

Lladislaus Zdzieblowski

A work made of oil on canvas.

New England Scenery, 1839

Thomas Cole

A work made of silver and cloisonné enamel.

Bonbonnière, 1938

Margret Craver

A work made of gilt copper and horn.

Reliquary Monstrance in the form of a Church, c. 1484

Earthenware white ground teapot with copper luster decoration designed with floral pattern in white relief. The edges and the bandwork is decorated with pink highlights.

Teapot with Symbols of England, Ireland, and Scotland, c. 1830

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