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A glass sculpture of a short and stout cicada. The top is flat with carved lines to detail the head. The middle and bottom are shaped into two longer points. It is light yellow in color with orange coloration in the engraved parts.

Glass Cicada

Chinese

Long, slender white jade hook with decorative diagonal marks and two dragon heads at opposite ends.

Long Jade Hook Terminating in Dragon Heads

Chinese

Symmetrical shape pendant of a wide arch, somewhat flat in the middle, it curls upward on both ends.　

Jade Openwork Plaque Terminating in Dragon Heads

Chinese

Two jade disks that are attached by a square hinge at the center. They are pale green and brown in color. The disks are circular with the centers cut out. There are four cut-out swirling pieces in each corner of the disks. The disks are detailed with engr

Pair of Hinged Jade Disks

Chinese

Profile view of a milky light green colored stylized cat, facing left with S-curved neck, back, and tail, looking fierce. 　

Small Jade Feline

Chinese

A flat jade pendant of a person that is dark green in color and has been carved with fine lines to outline a wrapped robe, belt, draped sleeves, their face, hair, and a small head piece. There are two protruding, round shaped coming out from the neck with

Jade Pendant in the Shape of a Human Figure

Chinese

A flat jade pendant of a woman that is rectangular in shape and has been carved with fine lines to outline a wrapped robe, belt, a swirling shape by her feet, her face, and her hair which goes behind her head.

Jade Pendant Shaped as a Female Figure (one of a pair)

Chinese

A flat jade pendant of a woman that is rectangular in shape and has been carved with fine lines to outline a wrapped robe, belt, a swirling shape by her feet, her face, and her hair which goes behind her head.

Jade Pendant Shaped as a Female Figure (one of a pair)

Chinese

A dark green jade disk with a circle cut out in the middle. The center circle is fairly small. There is a faint pattern throughout the piece made of small circles.

Large Jade Disk

Chinese

A carved object of a bird in profile faces left clenching a coiled snake in its open hooked beak.　

Jade Bird Subduing Two Snakes

Chinese

A pair of hinged jade plaques that are shown lying horizontally flat. The two plaques are made of swirling shapes with the negative spaces cut out. The hinge at the center is square in shape. There are carved lines throughout the piece that swirl and curl

Hinged Pair of Jade Plaques

Chinese

Vertical shaped ornament of a dragon with arched back and parrot-like tail curled at the tip.　

Jade Openwork Feline

Chinese

A claw-shaped curved flat jade object, almost C-shaped, with an animal carved into it.　

Claw-Shaped Jade Pendant

Chinese

Ornate and fairly flat, highly polished bird-like animal made from jade.　

Jade Bird Figure in Openwork

Chinese

An ornate triangular shaped dragon with its head in the upper right corner, facing right with open mouth about to chomp on a curl.　

Feline in Decorative Jade Triangle (one of a pair)

Chinese

A jade sculpture of a short, round cicada. The top is curved with carved lines to detail the head and antennas. The middle and bottom have carved lines that make downward facing points. The bottom comes to a point. It is light brown in color with some lighter spots.

Jade Cicada in the Round

Chinese

A jade plaque that is oval in shape and brown and black in color. There is an engraved symmetrical, swirling pattern at the center of the plaque. There are small holes at the top and bottom corners and sides of the plaque.

Ornate Oval Jade Plaque

Chinese

Health, General: United States. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Composition of Food Materials: Chart 14. Composition, Functions, and Uses of Food.: Functions and Uses of Food. Constituents of Food. Use of Food in the Body.

Health, General: United States. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Composition of Food Materials: Chart 14. Composition, Functions, and Uses of Food.: Functions and Uses of Food. Constituents of Food. Use of Food in the Body., active c.1900

Andrew B. Graham Co.

A monochrome, pale terracotta rendering of a young woman carrying a baby on her left shoulder

Young Woman Carrying a Child on Her Left Shoulder, 1738 - 1814

Claude Michel, called Clodion

A monochrome, pale terracotta rendering of a young woman carrying a baby on her right shoulder

Young Woman Carrying a Child on Her Right Shoulder, 1738 - 1814

Claude Michel, called Clodion

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