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Grotesque Head With a Large Ear and an Open Mouth Looking to the Right Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini (Italian, active Rome, 1710–30)
Date: 1727
Accession Number: 60.541.7
Man's Audience Robe (Chaofu)

Date: second half of the 19th century
Accession Number: 35.84.3
Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

Hashimoto Chikanobu (Japanese, 1838–1912)
Date: 1895
Accession Number: JP3545
Spoon

Date: late 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1787
Virgin and Child

Date: 14th century
Accession Number: 17.190.169
Engaged Capital

Date: 13th century
Accession Number: 25.120.505
Evening dress

Madame Grès (Alix Barton) (French, Paris 1903–1993 Var region)
Date: late 1960s
Accession Number: 1979.435.18a, b
Apothecary jar (albarello)

Date: ca. 1480–1500
Accession Number: 1975.1.1052
Vase

Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 24.80.140
Afternoon at Sea

Estela Hussong (Mexican, born 1950)
Date: 1985
Accession Number: 1990.26.6
Cylinder seal

Date: ca. 16th–15th century B.C.
Accession Number: 41.160.314
Two-quart Flagon

Boardman and Company (1825–27)
Date: 1825–27
Accession Number: 43.162.4
Vase

Accession Number: 17.120.198
Portrait of a Man

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1540/41–1614 Toledo)
Date: ca. 1590–1600
Accession Number: 24.197.1
Tweezers

Date: 7th century
Accession Number: 17.191.212
Piece

Date: ca. 1720 (?)
Accession Number: 09.50.1485
Coin

Date: 1199–1220
Accession Number: 39.40.127.274
Box

Date: 1830–70
Accession Number: 47.90.101a, b
Ebony and Ivory

F. Holland Day (American, Norwood, Massachusetts 1864–1933 Norwood, Massachusetts)
Date: ca. 1897
Accession Number: 33.43.166
La Bièvre

Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris)
Date: ca. 1865
Accession Number: 1988.1071

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Grotesque Head With a Large Ear and an Open Mouth Looking to the Right Within a Circle
Gaetano Piccini (Italian, active Rome, 1710–30)
Date: 1727
Accession Number: 60.541.7
Man's Audience Robe (Chaofu)
Date: second half of the 19th century
Accession Number: 35.84.3
Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)
Hashimoto Chikanobu (Japanese, 1838–1912)
Date: 1895
Accession Number: JP3545
Spoon
Date: late 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1787
Virgin and Child
Date: 14th century
Accession Number: 17.190.169
Engaged Capital
Date: 13th century
Accession Number: 25.120.505
Evening dress
Madame Grès (Alix Barton) (French, Paris 1903–1993 Var region)
Date: late 1960s
Accession Number: 1979.435.18a, b
Apothecary jar (albarello)
Date: ca. 1480–1500
Accession Number: 1975.1.1052
Vase
Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 24.80.140
Afternoon at Sea
Estela Hussong (Mexican, born 1950)
Date: 1985
Accession Number: 1990.26.6
Cylinder seal
Date: ca. 16th–15th century B.C.
Accession Number: 41.160.314
Two-quart Flagon
Boardman and Company (1825–27)
Date: 1825–27
Accession Number: 43.162.4
Vase
Accession Number: 17.120.198
Portrait of a Man
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1540/41–1614 Toledo)
Date: ca. 1590–1600
Accession Number: 24.197.1
Tweezers
Date: 7th century
Accession Number: 17.191.212
Piece
Date: ca. 1720 (?)
Accession Number: 09.50.1485
Coin
Date: 1199–1220
Accession Number: 39.40.127.274
Box
Date: 1830–70
Accession Number: 47.90.101a, b
Ebony and Ivory
F. Holland Day (American, Norwood, Massachusetts 1864–1933 Norwood, Massachusetts)
Date: ca. 1897
Accession Number: 33.43.166
La Bièvre
Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris)
Date: ca. 1865
Accession Number: 1988.1071