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A work made of engraving on ivory paper.

Peter Isbrandi, c. 1649-58

Cornelis Visscher

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

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

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of lithograph on paper.

Seen in a Mirror (Self-Portrait), 1933

John Copley

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

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

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 lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

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

Paul Gavarni

A work made of chromogenic print.

Untitled [Broken Glass], 1940/62

Howard Dearstyne

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

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 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

Terracotta cup with handles that appear tied in knots, a simple design around the middle, and a fluted section at the foot.

Kantharos (Wine Cup), 300-275 BCE

Ancient Greek

Scale miniature of a rustic but refined kitchen with a varnished wooden table at center and one chair. A dark wooden chest sits beneath the window at left, a spinning wheel in the left back corner. In the right corner is an ornately carved door adjacent to a staircase. Metal plates line a wide hearth.

A17: Pennsylvania Kitchen, 1752, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

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 gelatin silver print.

Lisa Lyon, Joshua Tree, 1980

Robert Mapplethorpe

Miniature of an ornate room with red walls and white and gold trim, a large fireplace at center, and black and white checkered flooring. Two armchairs flank a window on the left side. Three large painted portraits in golden frames hang on the back wall. There is a small table directly in front of the fireplace.

E-3: English Reception Room of the Jacobean Period, 1625-55, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of silk, satin weave, embroidered.

Dress for Christ Child, 18th century

In a stark desert landscape, an older man sits in the foreground, illuminated, with a newspaper. Arranged evenly across the land behind him, smaller than perspective would indicate, are a faded child holding a hula hoop, a man holding a melting piano, a standing woman, and a figure near the horizon.

A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano, 1936

Salvador Dalí

Miniature of a very dark, ornate bedroom with a partially canopied green bed at center, brown parquet flooring, and deep brown and golden wallpaper. A gold chandelier hangs in the center, and two dark-brown cupboards sit on either side of the room. On the right is also a white and brown fireplace.

E-17: French Bedroom, Late 16th Century, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

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