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A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Ptolemy I, 253-252 BCE, reign of Ptolemy II (285–247 BCE)

Ancient Greek

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; appliquéd with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin and plain weaves; painted; embroidered with silk, silk 2:2 twill oblique interlaced tapes, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and gilt- and silvered-metal strips, coils, wires and paillettes in satin, single satin, raised stem and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work and couching; feathers; glass beads and seed pearls.

Picture Depicting the Queen of Sheba before King Solomon, 1601/50

Loose black lines form two men, possibly vagrants, in baggy, layered clothing. At left, one with tiny round glasses on his forehead and straggly hair leans on a fence. The other, with a round nose and full cheeks, snoozes on the ground at right.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: His Majesty the King of beasts, 1852

Paul Gavarni

A work made of gold.

Octadrachm (Coin) Portraying King Ptolemy III Euergetes, Ptolemaic Period (221–205 BCE), issued by King Ptolemy IV, reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes (247–222 BCE)

Ancient Greek

A work made of color lithograph in black, violet, and gray on white japanese paper.

Three Kings, 1913

Emil Nolde

A work made of sandstone.

Serpent King (Nagaraja), Champa Period, 9th/10th century

A work made of steatite.

Statuette of Osiris, Late Period, Dynasty 26 (664–525 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of oil on canvas.

Seventeenth-Century Interior, 1877

Charles Gifford Dyer

A work made of silver dye-bleach print.

Latin Kings, Chicago, 1980

Luis Medina

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Antiochus I Soter, 281-261 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of limestone.

Capital with the Adoration of the Magi, 1110/30

Spanish

A work made of etching on ivory wove paper.

The Seven Stone Weakling from "A rake's progress" 3a, 1961–1963

David Hockney

A work made of ivory.

Tusk, 1850-1888

Edo

St. George on white horse, piercing green, gold dragon

Saint George and the Dragon, 1434–35

Bernat Martorell

A work made of black and colored fiber-tipped pens and blue ball point pen, on white wove paper.

King Champion, 1966

Karl Wirsum

A work made of tempera and oil on panel.

Emperor Heraclius Slays the King of Persia, c. 1470

Netherlandish

A work made of etching on cream wove paper.

Edgar, May 20, 1775; published 1809

John Hamilton Mortimer

A work made of engraving on paper.

A King Pursued by a Unicorn, 1550/60

Jean Duvet

Cup and Saucer

Cup and Saucer, 19th century

A work made of silver.

Denarius (Coin) Portraying King Philip II, 244-247

Ancient Roman

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