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The courtesans Hitomoto and Tagasode of the Daimonji House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

The courtesans Hitomoto and Tagasode of the Daimonji House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

The courtesans Hanaōgi and Takigawa of the Ogi House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

The courtesans Hanaōgi and Takigawa of the Ogi House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

The courtesans Azumaya and Kokonoe of the Matsukane House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

The courtesans Azumaya and Kokonoe of the Matsukane House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

An ink and opaque watercolor painting of a standing woman wearing a long red skirt, a cropped yellow shirt, and an orange veil behind her head. She holds her two hands up by her face. The background is turquoise and she is framed by red and green frames that have gold floral patterns on them. There is written script above and below the woman.

Woman Applying Kohl, painting from the Salim Album

Mughal

Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation

Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation

Byzantine

Circular Impressed Disk

Circular Impressed Disk

Greek

Perseus receiving the mirror from Athena; sheathing his sword after striking off the head of Medusa. In background is Pegasus on Mount Helicon, and under his hoof the Hippocrene is gushing forth. (Fol. k viii verso)

Perseus receiving the mirror from Athena; sheathing his sword after striking off the head of Medusa. In background is Pegasus on Mount Helicon, and under his hoof the Hippocrene is gushing forth. (Fol. k viii verso)

Anonymous Germany

Finial

Finial

Iranian

The Young Maharaja of Indore in Durbar

The Young Maharaja of Indore in Durbar

Indian

Sheet V, Mary with the Sleeping Boy in Her Arms in Front of the Mirror, Transfigured by the Ring of the Drum Major

Sheet V, Mary with the Sleeping Boy in Her Arms in Front of the Mirror, Transfigured by the Ring of the Drum Major, 1897 - 1929

Walter Gramatté

The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

Dancing Girl Mimyō from the Mirror of the East (Maime Mimyō: Azuma kagami), from the series Twenty-Four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren honchō nijūshikō)

Dancing Girl Mimyō from the Mirror of the East (Maime Mimyō: Azuma kagami), from the series Twenty-Four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren honchō nijūshikō), 1786? - 1868

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

White ground Lekythos: Meeting at the Tomb

White ground Lekythos: Meeting at the Tomb, active c. 450-440 BCE

Manner of The Achilles Painter

Painted, gilded wooden statue of woman with crown holding baby

The Virgin and Child

Unidentified Artist

The courtesans Hinazuru and Chōzan of the Chōji House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

The courtesans Hinazuru and Chōzan of the Chōji House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami), 1761 - 1816

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演

Engraved Belt

Engraved Belt

Greek

Head of an Oba

Head of an Oba

Unidentified Artist

A flute player plays while another figure dances and others look on.

Calyx Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Exotic Dancer, active 4th century BCE

Attributed to The Nikias Painter

Square with Aphrodite

Square with Aphrodite

Byzantine

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