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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 oil on canvas.

The Vase of Tulips, c. 1890

Paul Cezanne

A work made of two fragments: cotton, plain weave; stenciled and hand-painted.

Two Fragments, Edo period (1615–1868), 1675/1727

A work made of cotton, plain weave, painted; resist-dyed.

Length of Chintz, c. 1730/50

A work made of paulownia wood with polychromy and gilding.

Seated Guanyin, Song dynasty (960–1279)

A work made of steel and leather.

Closed Burgonet, 1600/10

A solidly black image in which hazy form, perhaps a figure, appears slightly left of center in a mottled hue slightly lighter thank the surrounding black.

Untitled, 1999

Ellen Gallagher

A work made of limestone and pigment.

Tomb Wall Fragment Depicting Donkeys, Old Kingdom, late Dynasty 5, about 2375 BCE

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of woodblock print.

The Night Visit, from the series "Story of the Cormorant", About 1938

Munakata Shikô

A light-colored, highly polished stone figure, faceless but with a prominent nose, crossed arms, and a slim, rectangular built. A portion of its legs at bottom have broken off and are missing.

Statuette of a Female Figure, Early Bronze Age, 2600–2400 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of bronze.

Sleeping Muse, 1910

Constantin Brancusi

A work made of intaglio: carnelian setting: gold.

Intaglio of Mars, Intaglio: about 1st century BCE setting: date unknown

Abstract painting of several various-colored and overlapping rings and circles, looser brushstrokes drape across the circles like winding thread.

Untitled, 1964

Tanaka Atsuko

A work made of gouache, over graphite, on white wove paper laid down on white wove paper.

The Fruit Vendor, 1943

Rufino Tamayo

Miniature upper-class room with white wood-paneled walls, chandelier, wooden furniture, and canopied bed and curtains draped with matching printed fabrics.

A8: Massachusetts Bedroom, c. 1801, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of printed broadside.

Declaration of the independence of the imagination and the rights of man to his own madness, 1939

Salvador Dalí

A blackish square with the words "It's only vanishing cream" written in a capitalized, blocky font in a gray-black color just a few shades lighter than its background.

It's Only Vanishing Cream, 1973

Ed Ruscha

A work made of woodcut monoprint in black on japanese paper.

Weaving (Tecelar), 1953

Lygia Pape

Vertically oriented painting of a dark, featureless figure with a bulb-shaped head utop an ivory archway, gray wispy object emanating from the figure. Below on arid ground lie two gray bean-like shapes, ghostly figures in the distance.

Untitled (Desert Landscape), 1934

Salvador Dalí

Painting of an arid landscape in blue, beige, and gray. At left, a dark figure-like form sits atop a beige archway, two gray kidney shapes below it.

Untitled (Dream of Venus) formerly Visions of Eternity, 1939

Salvador Dalí

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