On View: Hairpin
Ivory’s value results from its scarcity, as well as its association with the elephant, a symbol of power and strength. Ivory bracelets...
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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: Kneeling Statuette of Pepy I
Almost any temple sculpture could serve as a cult statue, but the Egyptians only placed the most important cult images—as we believe this ...
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On View: Fragmentary Statuette of a Man
In Dynasty 18, artisans frequently made shawabtis (funerary figures) out of faience, a glasslike material. Other types of individual faience...
Asian Galleries, The Arts of China, 2nd Floor