Vase with flowering cherry and birds. Ando Cloisonné Company, Nagoya, Japan, ca. 1910. Copper, silver, enamel. Walters Art Museum collection [1586×1800]April 3, 2025
Gilded Bronze Anubis statuette facing a kneeling worshiper. A hieroglyphic inscription identifies the dedicant as Wdja-Hor-resnet, son of Ankh-pa-khered. Egypt, Karnak, Temple of Amun, 680-660 BC, Walters Art Musuem [1404×1800]April 3, 2025
The six segments of this bracelet feature miniature portraits of three Mughal emperors and their consorts. Indian artists adopted the technique of painting portrait miniatures on ivory with watercolors from British artists living and working in India during the 19th century. Walters [1798×490]April 3, 2025
A red-glazed terracotta dish of model fruits from a 4th-century tomb in Paestum, from the Archaeological Museum of Paestum [2448×3264]April 3, 2025
Sarmatian Diadem. Gold, amethyst quartz, almandines, garnets, turquoise, coral, glass, pearls, resinous mass. 1st century AD, Khokhlach burial mound, Novocherkassk treasure. [1500×1500]April 3, 2025
Palace of the pool is a recreational facility within the larger imperial complex of Samarra (the temporary capital of the Abbasid caliphate). The building is 14 meter under ground and the pool has a circular shape that is 62 meter in diameter and is 1.5 meter deep. 840s AD, Central Iraq [2048×1447]April 3, 2025
British Museum object EA37984 close up of a banquet from Amenhotep III circa 1370 BC. Found in Thebes, it’s very interesting due to the musician girls looking forwards rather than being side-on, while two dancers prance on. It’s worth a Google to see the other fragments and colours. OC. [4032×3024]April 2, 2025
