Parade float depicting the Ō’nyūdō, with 2.2 meter extendable neck and moveable tongue and eyeballs. Japan, Edo period, 1805 [1770×1300]October 29, 2025
Thousand-Autumn Dragon Pattern Mirror. China, Tang Dynasty (618–907). Lüshun Museum [3024×4032] [OC]October 29, 2025
Wooden popgun souvenir from the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. [3456×1809]October 29, 2025
Automation Friar, Germany or Southern Spain Late 16th C.National Museum American History. [1042×2025]October 28, 2025
In 1949, artists from Iran and Italy gathered to create the history’s first statue of a Persian king made in the West: Nader Shah, known in Europe as the “Napoleon of the East.” Six years later, a 14-ton statue arrived from Rome at his tomb in Mashhad, where it greets visitors today. [4608×3456]October 28, 2025
Costume Armor in the Classical Style. Helmet includes original paper label of Hallé French Pageants in pseudoclassical dress, were popular in Europe from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century, circa 1788–90 [1200×900]October 28, 2025
A 2,000-year-old Roman tombstone has been found in a New Orleans backyard, left there by the granddaughter of a U.S. soldier who brought it from Italy during World War II. The tombstone belonged to a Roman soldier and sailor named Sextus Congenius Verus. [3800×3040]October 28, 2025
A punt gun is an extremely large shotgun or smoothbore firearm, typically mounted on a small boat called a “punt,” which was used for commercial waterfowl hunting in the 19th century. Their use was eventually banned due to its devastating impact on waterfowl populations. [1440×1096]October 28, 2025
A ceramic sculpture depicting two girls playing the Ephedrismos game with one carrying the other on her back. From Corinth in Greece, c. 300 BCE, now housed at the Allard Pierson Museum in the Netherlands [1061×2300]October 28, 2025
