A work made of porcelain painted in underglaze blue.

Vase with Pomegranates and Stylized Floral Scrolls, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

A work made of silk and gilt-metal strip, plain weave with supplementary facing wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet.

Five Fragments, 1601/25

A work made of silk, plain weave with silvered-metal strip supplementary facing wefts bound by secondary binding warps and supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided "velvet".

Panel, 1550/1600

A work made of bronze.

Dupondius (Coin) Portraying Emperor Vespasian, 69-79

Ancient Roman

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Kachio Temple in Settsu Province, No. 23 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei nijusanban Settsu Kachiodera), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)", 1859

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica).

Plate with Theseus in the House of Achelous, from the Lancierini Service, 1540/50

A work made of lithograph in black on grayish-ivory chine, laid down on thick cream wove paper.

Portrait of Honoré Daumier, n.d.

Jules Letoula

A work made of pen and black ink with extraneous gray wash on white wove paper.

House of Vice, 1981

José Luis Cuevas

A work made of silk, pusher machine lace.

Shawl, 1860s

A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace; continuous clothwork tapes).

Border, 18th century

A work made of glass, painted and gilded.

Entombment of Saint Catherine, 16th–17th century

Italian

A work made of silk, plain weave with silvered-metal-strip supplementary facing wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet.

Fragment, Late 16th century

A work made of silk, plain compound twill weave.

Roundel, 7th century

A work made of book composed of five volumes.

Une semaine de bonté, ou, Les sept éléments capitaux : roman, Paris: Aux éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934

Max Ernst

A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace.

Border, 1750/1800

A work made of linen, bobbin part lace.

Border, 1701/25

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware.

Platter, c. 1700/20

Rouen Potteries

A work made of glass, vitreous paint, and silver stain.

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1525

A work made of full tan morocco binding; boards die cut in the shape of u; onlays on spine in shape of b; black silk endleaves; crown stamped in gold on front endleaf; author stamped in gold on back endleaf; gilt edges; original paper covers bound in.

Ubu roi: Drame en cinq actes (King Ubu: A Play in Five Acts), Published 1921; rebound 1934-1935

Mary Reynolds

A work made of roulette engraving on ivory wove paper.

Plate One, from In The Morning, 1978

David Finkbeiner