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A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Single-Handled Pedestal Jar with Geometric Motifs and Appliques on Shoulders, 1000–1470

Lambayeque

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects), 450-440 BCE

Euaion Painter

A work made of graphite on ivory wove paper.

Woman in a Shawl, Sketch of Legs, n.d.

Augustus Edwin John

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

Saigyo Hoshi, 1730s

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of gilt gesso, white pine, red pine, silvered glass, and paint.

Looking Glass, 1790–1810

Artist unknown

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

A29: South Carolina Ballroom, 1775-1835, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of oil on canvas.

Counter-Composition VIII, 1924

Theo van Doesburg

A work made of dye imbibition print.

Frozen Foods with String Beans, New York, 1977, printed 1993

Irving Penn

A work made of appliquéd and embroidered quilt; dyed and undyed cotton plain weave fabrics; cotton embroidery threads; graphite pencil pattern outlines.

State Birds and Flowers Quilt, c. 1950

Dr. Jeannette Dean Throckmorton

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

E-7: English Drawing Room of the Early Georgian Period, 1730s, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

E-6: English Library of the Queen Anne Period, 1702-50, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of pen and reed pen and brown inks and graphite on cream wove paper.

Cypresses, 1889

Vincent van Gogh

A work made of steel, paint, and plastic.

Toy, 1961

John Angus Chamberlain

A colored drawing of a nude minotaur and blue horse in the arena of a stadium. The muscled minotaur stands, his arms raised and flexed, showing his strength. The horse twists toward the minotaur as it rears and tumbles to the ground. The body of the horse is heavily decorated in black ink, designs that enhance its physique. The background of spectators is rendered very sketchily.

Minotaur and Wounded Horse, April 17, 1935

Pablo Picasso

A work made of oil on canvas.

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, c. 1622

Diego Velázquez

A work made of woodcut in black on ivory laid paper.

Elector Frederick III of Saxony, from Speculum intellectuale felicitatis humane, 1510

Wolf Traut

A work made of oil on canvas.

Woman with a Bird Cage, 1941

Rufino Tamayo

A work made of oil on canvas.

Alphabet de la Tête, 1938

Victor Brauner

A work made of silver.

Coin Depicting Cow Suckling Calf, 229-100 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

A32: Louisiana Bedroom, 1800-50, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

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