On View: Three-Headed Figure (Sakimatwemtwe)
This Lega figure is known as sakimatwemtwe, or “the man with many heads.” It would have been owned by a man who belonged to Kind...
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Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.
On View: Candelabrum
Cornelius & Company exhibited a pair of fifteen-foot-tall candelabra in the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and was...
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George Jacob Hunzinger – American, born Germany, 1835-1898