A 19th Century Sketchbook I recently acquired from Japan, being an anonymous artist’s collection of miniature paintings of various Chinese Southern School landscapes. [1536×2048]June 14, 2025
Bronze wine vessel with scenes of hunting, feasting, mulberry leaf picking, and an archery competition and its award ceremony. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 6th-5th century BC [3900×6700]June 14, 2025
Cinerary hut urn. Villanovan culture, Italy, ca. 9th c BC. Terracotta. On loan to the Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art from the Italian state [2992×2992] [OC]June 14, 2025
“Dinosaur” wall carving from Ta Prohm, near Angkor Wat and built by the king Jayavarman VII in the late 1100s [1200×900]June 14, 2025
Cast Brass Weights of stylized bovid heads for weighing gold dust. Gold was extremely important in the economic and political life of the Akan kingdoms of southern Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Until the mid 19th century, gold dust was the primary form of currency in the region [2048×2048]June 14, 2025
Amarna letter from Labayu (ruler of Shechem) to Amenhotep III, denying accusation of treachery &failure to comply with the pharaoh’s orders. He justifies his capture of a town with a proverb “When an ant is struck, does it not fight back and bite the hand of the man that struck it?”[2159×2048]June 14, 2025
Black-figure mastos, ca. 530 BC, with combat scenes now housed at the Walters Art Museum [500×494]June 14, 2025
Saliera by Benvenuto Cellini with themes symbolizing the cosmos. Deities Neptune and Tellus, motifs of the times of day, and the 4 winds are depicted. This cosmos is dominated by the patron, present in coats of arms and emblems: King Francis I of France. 1540-1543 [1199×1040]June 14, 2025
The Tandragee Idol, dated to the Iron Age, with some sources suggesting a date as early as 1000 BCE. It shows the torso and head of a grotesque and brutish figure who crosses his body with his left arm to hold his right arm in what appears to be a ritualistic pose. Northern Ireland [1080×1350]June 14, 2025
