Collections: Items Tagged "Alabaster"

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On View: Relief of Queen Nefertiti Kissing One of Her Daughters

Egyptian art made in the centuries before Akhenaten came to the throne gives few clues to the lives or feelings of members of the royal fami...

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: Dance Headdress (Ci-wara Kun)

    These headdresses, called ci-wara, represent antelopes, important animals in Bamana philosophy. The antelope’s power is a metaphor for...

     

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    Found 20 Items Tagged "Alabaster"


    Kneeling Statuette of Pepy IStatuette of Queen Ankhnes-meryre II and her Son, Pepy IIThe WaveFragmentary Ointment Jar Inscribed for UnasKohl Tube in the Form of a FishStatue of Isis Holding the Child Horus Seated on a ThroneHollow Figure of a Trussed DuckHeadrest of ShemaiRelief of Winged Man-Headed Figure Facing RightPear-Shaped Kohl PotCanopic Jar with Lid of the Royal Scribe and Chief Lector Priest ThenryWinged GenieShabti of HeqaibThe BatherVase with Pointed Base, from the  Burial of King DjoserLion Holding VesselTwo- Handled Jar with Floral Collar in ReliefEgg-Shaped Mace Head
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