Carved Agate Chimpanzee purchased by Henry Walters at the Faberge headquarters in St. Petersburg in 1900. Walters Art Museum [914×1239]May 11, 2025
Colima Tripod Parrot Leg Olla. West Mexico. Classic Period, ca. 100 BC – 250 AD. – Galeria Contici [1392×928]May 11, 2025
Ritual implement with four vajra points. Japan, Nanboku-chō period, 14th century [2380×2280]May 11, 2025
A mural painted by Konchok Zangpo in the early 15th century CE, depicting Buddha Shakyamuni. Located in the Gyantse Kumbum in Tibet [759×1205]May 11, 2025
A ceramic jar (Olla) made by the Ancestral Puebloan, ‘Tuxedo’ Design, 950–1400 CE, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum [886×1200]May 11, 2025
A late 19th century CE Japanese ivory netsuke depicting the final episode of the famous Chushingura story that tells how the 47 ronin avenged their dead master. Here we see the loyal ronin storming of the house of their dead master’s enemy. Now housed at the British Museum [1596×1677]May 11, 2025
Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon, Bactria-Margiana civilization, late 3rd early 2nd millennium BC, Central Asia [1928 × 1888]May 10, 2025
A Roman denarius minted around 76 AD to commemorate the rebuilding of the Temple of Jupiter. The reverse on this coin may have been defaced by someone who was unhappy about this event. Strangely enough, the temple burned down less than five years later. [1000×495]May 10, 2025
