A painted ceramic bottle with a curious scene. No idea what they are doing, looks like one of the characters gives the other. shot (perhaps a primitive form of vaccination). Moche civilization of Peru, AD 400-600. Dumbarton Oaks collection. [3024×4032]December 5, 2025
Scythian golden gorytos [bow-case] found in Ukraine with the scenes of the Achilleid Epic that would be written only 500 years later, 4th c. BC [1999 x 1334]December 5, 2025
Designer unknown (European). Waistcoat, ca. 1730. Silk cut, uncut, and voided velvet (ciselé). [4320 x 4320]December 5, 2025
Vase by Kimura Toun (1781-1830) imitating a woven basket for ikebana arrangement. Japan. Copper, copper alloy. Walters Art Museum collection [3000×4000] [OC]December 5, 2025
Nasca ceramic cup with a bunch of depressed-looking guys, AD 350-450, from Dumbarton Oaks collection [3024×4032]December 5, 2025
Embroidered US Infantry Regimental Colors of the First World War, c.1917. Military Museum, Brussels. It might be related to the 1st Infantry Division, known as the Big Red 1, which was organized in 1917 during WWI, but this fact is, at most, uncertain. [1280×952] [OC]December 5, 2025
Remnant of a sitting Buddha statue. Gandhara, Pakistan, 1st-3rd century AD [3800×3600]December 5, 2025
Marsylas flayed, a 1st-2nd century AD Roman copy of a Greek original from the 2nd century BC, found at the Horti Maecenatiani. The choice of the marble, known as pavonazzetto, renders dramatically the livid colors of the tortured body and gives a startlingly lifelike impression… [1280×853] [OC]December 5, 2025
Pietra dura panel, after designs by Jacopo Ligozzi (1547-1627), marble, lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jade [1500 x 976]December 5, 2025
