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Fruit dish (Compotier coquille) (one of four) (part of a service)

Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740–present)
Date: 1780
Accession Number: 37.20.14
Coat

Attributed to Mainbocher (American, 1890–1976)
Date: 1950
Accession Number: 2009.300.6825
The Matthew-orama for 1827–or Cockney Gleanings,–Aint that a good un now?

Thomas Howell Jones (British, active 1824–48)
Date: March 26, 1827
Accession Number: 17.3.888-55
Chain with Birds and Trees of Life

Date: 1000–1200
Accession Number: 17.190.706
Mace head

Date: ca. 9th century B.C.
Accession Number: 61.100.17
Photograph

Irving Penn (American, Plainfield, New Jersey 1917–2009 New York)
Date: ca. 1974
Accession Number: 2005.293.11
Two Sleeping Figures

Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century
Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 80.3.406
Actor Ichimura Uzaemon (1699–1762) as a Comb Vendor

Okumura Toshinobu (active ca. 1725–1750)
Date: ca. 1730
Accession Number: JP1608
Netsuke of a Woman

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 10.211.725
Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine

Date: ca. 1170
Accession Number: 17.190.2138a, b
Embroidery

Date: 1774–92
Accession Number: 20.56.46
Lamp

Date: mid-14th century
Accession Number: 1974.370.14
[Gladiola, Darien, Connecticut]

Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
Date: 1929–30
Accession Number: 1994.254.587
Benjamin Franklin

After Charles Willson Peale (American, Chester, Maryland 1741–1827 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Date: 1787
Accession Number: 24.90.52
Undersleeves

Date: 1700–1945
Accession Number: C.I.45.68.161a, b
Funerary Cone of Djehutynefer

Date: ca. 1550–1352 B.C.
Accession Number: 09.185.25b
Piece

Date: 18th–19th century
Accession Number: 96.14.1529
British Legation, Teheran

Luigi Pesce (Italian)
Date: 1858
Accession Number: 67.606.11
Plaque: Two Portuguese Merchants

Date: 16th–17th century
Accession Number: 1991.17.18
Suit

Perry Ellis (American, 1940–1986)
Date: 1984
Accession Number: 1998.499.3a, b

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Fruit dish (Compotier coquille) (one of four) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740–present)
Date: 1780
Accession Number: 37.20.14
Coat
Attributed to Mainbocher (American, 1890–1976)
Date: 1950
Accession Number: 2009.300.6825
The Matthew-orama for 1827–or Cockney Gleanings,–Aint that a good un now?
Thomas Howell Jones (British, active 1824–48)
Date: March 26, 1827
Accession Number: 17.3.888-55
Chain with Birds and Trees of Life
Date: 1000–1200
Accession Number: 17.190.706
Mace head
Date: ca. 9th century B.C.
Accession Number: 61.100.17
Photograph
Irving Penn (American, Plainfield, New Jersey 1917–2009 New York)
Date: ca. 1974
Accession Number: 2005.293.11
Two Sleeping Figures
Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century
Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 80.3.406
Actor Ichimura Uzaemon (1699–1762) as a Comb Vendor
Okumura Toshinobu (active ca. 1725–1750)
Date: ca. 1730
Accession Number: JP1608
Netsuke of a Woman
Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 10.211.725
Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine
Date: ca. 1170
Accession Number: 17.190.2138a, b
Embroidery
Date: 1774–92
Accession Number: 20.56.46
Lamp
Date: mid-14th century
Accession Number: 1974.370.14
[Gladiola, Darien, Connecticut]
Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
Date: 1929–30
Accession Number: 1994.254.587
Benjamin Franklin
After Charles Willson Peale (American, Chester, Maryland 1741–1827 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Date: 1787
Accession Number: 24.90.52
Undersleeves
Date: 1700–1945
Accession Number: C.I.45.68.161a, b
Funerary Cone of Djehutynefer
Date: ca. 1550–1352 B.C.
Accession Number: 09.185.25b
Piece
Date: 18th–19th century
Accession Number: 96.14.1529
British Legation, Teheran
Luigi Pesce (Italian)
Date: 1858
Accession Number: 67.606.11
Plaque: Two Portuguese Merchants
Date: 16th–17th century
Accession Number: 1991.17.18
Suit
Perry Ellis (American, 1940–1986)
Date: 1984
Accession Number: 1998.499.3a, b