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A work made of wood, pigment, glass beads, cowrie shells, fabric, and thread.

Face Mask (Ngady Mwaash), Late 19th-mid 20th century

Kuba

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, satin, and stem stitches; french knots; two loom widths joined.

Bedcover in the Arts and Crafts Style, Early 20th century (based on 17th–century English designs)

A work made of bronze.

Mirror with "TLV" Pattern, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), about 1st century

A work made of wood, copper alloy, and pigment.

Female Face Mask (Ndoma), Late 19th or mid–20th century

Baule

A work made of leaded favrile glass.

Lilies (Corey Memorial Window), 1892–95

Louis Comfort Tiffany

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Plate Six, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

A room with canon at left pointed toward a wall divided into four segments: wood grain at top left; at top right, gray tubes with halved spheres; at bottom left, blue sky and clouds; and at bottom right, a brown building with curtained windows. A left wall, segmented in two, features a nude female torso at top and detailed trees at bottom. The right wall features a top panel of wavy yellow and orange, while bottom panel has a pink, cutout-like motif.

On the Threshold of Liberty, February–March 1937

René Magritte

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Amphora (Storage Jar), 4th century BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Rounded Jar Depicting Abstract Fish or Sharks, 180 BCE–500 CE

Nasca

A work made of wood and pigment.

Face Mask (Agbogho Mmuo), Late 19th or early 20th century

Igbo

A work made of oil on canvas.

Untitled (Psychological Morphology), 1939

Matta

A work made of wood, raffia, burlap, turaco feathers, guinea fowl feathers, and pigment.

Male Face Mask (Chihongo), Mid–late 19th century

Chokwe

A flat-lidded pale ceramic in a floral-like shape, a delicate floral motif in relief at top and on the sides.

Cloud-Shaped Pillow with Peony Scroll, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), late 10th/early 11th century

A work made of oil on linen.

Vincent and Tony, 1969

Alex Katz

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Puff of Smoke, 1912

Gifford Beal

A work made of gouache on silk.

Dorian Gray, 1945

Ivan Albright

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware.

Chocolate Jar with Iron-locked Lid, 1725–75

Talavera Poblana

A work made of partially gilded and painted blown mold glass.

"Royal Flemish" Vase, 1889–95

Mount Washington Glass Works

A work made of longquan ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration.

Foliate Cup and Stand, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), 14th century

A work made of wood, pigment, and fiber.

Figure Screen (Duein Fubara), Early 20th century

Kalabari

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