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On View: Hollow Cylindrical Amulet

Among the rarest of Middle Kingdom amulets are hollow gold cylinders, usually decorated with tiny gold balls arranged in a geometric pattern...

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: Colonel Nathan Beckwith

    This portrait depicts one half of a prominent couple from Dutchess Country. Nathan Beckwith was a land surveyor and his wife was the sister ...

     

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    Found 104 Items Tagged "steatite"

    Grave Marker (Tumba)Amulet in the Form of a Ba as Human-Headed BirdDish with Two GeeseKneeling Statue of NesbanebdjedetCylinder Seal with Bes and TaweretKohl Pot with Openwork DecorationStamp Seal of Meru the Answerer of Horus [the King]Bottle in the Form of a Mother and ChildBeaded NecklaceUshabti of SenkamaniskenShawabti of the Count of Thebes, MontuemhatThree Strand Necklace with ScarabCylinder Seal of Pepy ICowroid Amulet in Gold RingHathor with Horus as FalconDish in Form of Bound IbexModel Food Offering in Form of Bound GazelleInscribed Object from Foundation Deposit of Amunemhat II
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