Collections: Items Tagged "dish"

On View: Head of the God Osiris

Most sculptures of deities, including the countless images of Osiris made during the Late and Ptolemaic Periods, were smaller than the statu...

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: Palette or Amulet in the Shape of a Turtle

This object represents a river turtle, which early Egyptians may have considered a sinister creature of the muddy depths. By making an image...