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A work made of silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Fragment, 16th century

A work made of gold.

Aureus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Aurelian, 272, issued by Aurelian

Ancient Roman

A work made of silver.

Argenteus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Diocletian, 300, issued by Diocletian or Maximianus

Ancient Roman

Pewter jug and basin, lavishly decorated with floral motives and anthropomorphic figures.

"The Arts" Ewer and Basin, 1887/89

Jules-Paul Brateau

Three connected ivory panels carved with scenes from the life of Jesus.

Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1350/75

German

A work made of oil and tempera on panel.

Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints, c. 1510

German

A work made of gold.

Octadrachm (Coin) Portraying Queen Arsinoe II, After 270 BCE, issued by King Ptolemy II or III

Ancient Greek

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Kylix (Drinking Cup), about 480 BCE

Style of Douris

A work made of oil on panel.

Virgin and Child, c. 1460

Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden

A work made of oil on panel.

Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels, c. 1490

Colyn de Coter

A work made of silk, brocaded plain compound cloth.

Fragment, Mid–18th century

A work made of silk, 4:1 satin weave self-patterned by reversing of faces (satin damask).

Fragment, 1575/1625

A work made of oil on canvas.

Morning, 1760

Claude Joseph Vernet

A work made of transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, scraping and graphite, on thick, moderately textured (twill texture on verso), ivory wove paper.

Stowing Sail, 1903

Winslow Homer

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 lithograph on white wove paper.

A Street in Pontoise, 1921

Maurice de Vlaminck

A work made of pastel on tracing paper.

Woman at Her Toilette, 1900/05

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Mixed-media print of a woman in a white dress sitting on a patterned couch holding a naked baby, with a bed in the background, and an inscription in the lower right side.

Maternal Caress, 1890–91

Mary Cassatt

A work made of silk, plain weave of two color complementary ground wefts self-patterned by areas of 3:1 twill interlacings.

Fragments, c. 1725

A work made of oil on canvas.

Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth, 1730/35

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo