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Starlets in the Green Room, Bombay

Starlets in the Green Room, Bombay

Ketaki Sheth

The Twelve Zodiac Animals as Poets (Jūnishi Kasen)

The Twelve Zodiac Animals as Poets (Jūnishi Kasen), 1637 - 1702

Attributed to Kano Shōun

A rectangular textile fragment showing two vertical bands in black depicting lions, rabbits, riders, dancers/hunters, birds, and flowers on a yellowed, off-white ground.

Tunic Front: Riders and Dancers

Byzantine

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

Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) 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

Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) 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

A limestone relief depicting the profile of a man with a short, curled beard. He looks to the right and wears a headpiece that is made of many small rectangles pointing up.

Relief Fragment: Head of an Archer of the Royal Guard

Achaemenid

A limestone relief depicting the profile of a man’s head with a short, curled beard. He looks to the left and wears a headpiece that is made of many small rectangles pointing up.

Relief Fragment: Head of an Archer of the Royal Guard

Achaemenid

Head of an Eastern Woman ("The Ponsonby Head")

Head of an Eastern Woman ("The Ponsonby Head")

Roman

A stucco sculpture of a head with their hair up.

Head of a Buddhist Figure

Gandharan

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Unidentified Artist

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

Young Man in a Hurry (Twelfth--end of set): Politics in New York are not for the weak-willed or the sensitive -- Lindsay mirrors some of the strain of a mayoral race. But politics is his life, his profession and his talent -- and he intends to stay in the race.

Young Man in a Hurry (Twelfth--end of set): Politics in New York are not for the weak-willed or the sensitive -- Lindsay mirrors some of the strain of a mayoral race. But politics is his life, his profession and his talent -- and he intends to stay in the race., 1945 - 1984

Gordon W. Gahan

Circular Impressed Disk

Circular Impressed Disk

Greek

Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation

Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation

Byzantine

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

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

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

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