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A gray-green bronze vessel with a lid and a middle handle on top of it. It is smaller at the top and wider at the bottom with a thick foot. It is inscribed with detailed, swirling designs all over.

'You' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with 'Taotie' Decor

Chinese

A cast bronze orb that has three legs holding it up, two are visible. The orb is decorated with a geometric, swirling pattern that is mirrored down the vertical and horizontal centers. The legs are made of a circle and a swirled line that goes out, three on the bottom and three on the top. Two small circle handles are on the left and right.

Covered Spherical Food Vessel (Dui) with Geometric Decor

Chinese

Small "Zhi" or "Zun" Form Vessel with Abstract Decor

Small "Zhi" or "Zun" Form Vessel with Abstract Decor

Chinese

Small ceramic vessel (in two pieces) [piriform aryballos?]

Small ceramic vessel (in two pieces) [piriform aryballos?]

Stamnos (mixing vessel) with Cover: Dionysos, Maenads, and Satyr

Stamnos (mixing vessel) with Cover: Dionysos, Maenads, and Satyr, active 440 - 430 BCE

The Christie Painter

Woman and Two Satyrs; Study for a Classical Vessel; Maenad

Woman and Two Satyrs; Study for a Classical Vessel; Maenad, 1732 - 1806

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Body Sherd of Open Vessel with Lustrous Black Slip

Body Sherd of Open Vessel with Lustrous Black Slip

Mycenaean

Body-shoulder Sherd, Closed Vessel With Painted Decoration.

Body-shoulder Sherd, Closed Vessel With Painted Decoration.

Mycenaean

Body Sherd of Closed Vessel. Melian Imitation of Kamares

Body Sherd of Closed Vessel. Melian Imitation of Kamares

Minoan

'You' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with Animal-Head Bail Handle and with 'Taotie' and Striding 'Kui'-Dragon Decor

'You' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with Animal-Head Bail Handle and with 'Taotie' and Striding 'Kui'-Dragon Decor

Chinese

Covered Wine Vessel (You) with Animal-Head Bail Handle and Decoration of Long-Tailed Birds

Covered Wine Vessel (You) with Animal-Head Bail Handle and Decoration of Long-Tailed Birds

Chinese

Covered Ritual Food Cooking Vessel (Gui) with Four Columnar Legs and Four Handles

Covered Ritual Food Cooking Vessel (Gui) with Four Columnar Legs and Four Handles

Chinese

Covered Ritual Wine Vessel (You) with Animal-Head Bail Handle and Kui-Dragon Decor

Covered Ritual Wine Vessel (You) with Animal-Head Bail Handle and Kui-Dragon Decor

Chinese

Animal head pitcher

Animal head pitcher

Persian

A two-handled bowl seen from below which is decorated with two large eyes.

Eye Cup

Greek

Black-Gloss Handle Attachment: Head of Silenus

Black-Gloss Handle Attachment: Head of Silenus

Greek

Miniature Oinochoe

Miniature Oinochoe

Etruscan

Amphoriskos

Amphoriskos

Greek

Black and brown-colored beaker with small round base, wide mouth, and wider spherical middle with vine and leaf raised designs

Bulbous Beaker with Ivy Tendrils

Roman

A concave vessel with three curling features coming from the top rim.

"The Great Salt"

Unidentified Artist

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