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A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

A15: New York Parlor, 1850-70, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of color etching, engraving and lift ground aquatint on white wove paper.

Glowing Tree, 1958

Gabor Peterdi

Porcelain sculpture with pale-blue glaze, shape of a duck atop a lotus flower.

Incense Burner in the Form of a Duck, Song dynasty (960–1279), 12th century

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book.

Minashi-gai, shio-gai, katatsu-gai, miso-gai, chijimi-gai, and chigusa-gai, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)", 1789

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book.

Sudare-gai, hana-gai, sakura-gai, mumeno-gai, nadeshiko-gai, and kinuta-gai, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)", 1789

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

A13: New England Bedroom, 1750-1850, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of chromogenic print.

Untitled [Broken Glass], 1940/62

Howard Dearstyne

Terracotta vessel glazed in black, decorated with an orange figure of a woman holding a shield and a spear.

Amphora (Storage Jar), 460-450 BCE

Achilles Painter

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

E-29: English Roman Catholic Church in the Gothic Style, 1275-1300, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Bowl-shaped terracotta vessel with a foot, glazed in red with black figures encircling its body.

Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects), late 6th century BCE

Ancient Greek

A portrait of a young man with dark hair and beard painted on an irregular piece of wood. The background is gold as a wreath of ivy and necklace he wears. There are many areas where the paint has come off the surface.

Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath, Roman Period, early to mid–2nd century

Ancient Egyptian

A large stone steele with multiple registers of images from Buddhas life and sacred texts carved on all four sides

Buddhist Votive Stele, Western Wei dynasty (A.D. 535–557), dated A.D. 551

A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: Misere et corde - first speech, then..., 1852–53

Paul Gavarni

Replica of a sitting room with pale-blue walls and a wave-patterned wallpaper border. Heavy red velvet curtains on the center wall frame two tall windows, between which hangs a painting of a woman in a gold frame. A beige stone fireplace is at left, an open arched doorway at right.

E-28: German Sitting Room of the Biedermeier Period, 1815-50, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Landscape painting featuring a wavy tree tree in the foreground and a watermill with a red roof adjacent to a river at right. Colors are subdued earth tones, the foliage a dark green and the river a muddy brown. Water flows through the mill wheel under a cloudy sky of gray and blue. Three individuals can be seen in the distance at left.

The Watermill with the Great Red Roof, c. 1665

Meindert Hobbema

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Lisa Lyon, Joshua Tree, 1980

Robert Mapplethorpe

A work made of silk, satin weave, embroidered.

Dress for Christ Child, 18th century

A work made of oil on wood.

Tableau Vert, 1952

Ellsworth Kelly

A small-scale room in gold and brown tones with several partial latticed wood walls leading back to a Buddhist altar.

E-30: Chinese Interior, Traditional, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Abstract line composition of black lines at right angles forming quadrants including a gray square at upper left and a gray rectangle and red rectangle at lower right, against a white background.

Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red, 1935

Piet Mondrian

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