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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 gelatin silver print cutout sewn into postal envelope.

Gary Frost in His Boat, Calumet River, 1967

Keith Smith

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 chromogenic print.

Untitled [Broken Glass], 1940/62

Howard Dearstyne

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

A work made of oil on wood.

Tableau Vert, 1952

Ellsworth Kelly

A work made of oil on canvas.

Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow, 1879

Camille Pissarro

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

A dense group of many adults, the men in top hats, sit atop a stagecoach pulled by four horses at full gallop.

A Stagecoach, 1818

Horace Vernet

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