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The Annunciation

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Italian, Florence 1444/45–1510 Florence)

Date: ca. 1485
Accession Number: 1975.1.74

Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I

Date: ca. 1525–1504 B.C.
Accession Number: 26.3.30a

Jar with Dragon

Date: early 15th century
Accession Number: 37.191.1

Cat Statuette

Date: 332–30 B.C.
Accession Number: 56.16.1

Cornet à Pistons in B-flat

Courtois frères

Date: 1833
Accession Number: 2002.190a–n

Corner chair

Attributed to Joseph Armitt (died 1747)

Date: 1740–60
Accession Number: 25.115.15

Block from the Sanctuary in the Temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahri

Date: ca. 2010–2000 B.C.
Accession Number: 07.230.2

Celia

John Graham (American (born Ukraine) 1881–1961)

Date: ca. 1944
Accession Number: 68.185

ex "Kurtz"

Andrea Amati (Italian, Cremona ca. 1505–1578 Cremona)

Date: ca. 1560
Accession Number: 1999.26

Descriptio pbvlicae gratvlationis, spectacvlorvm et lvdorvm, in aventv sereniss: Principis Ernesti Archidvcis Avstriae Dvcis Vrgvndiae

Author: Jean Boch (Belgian, 1545–1608)

Date: 1595
Accession Number: 239 B63 Q

Morte d'Arthur

Author: Sir Thomas Malory (British, 15th century)

Date: 1893
Accession Number: 920.84 M292

Armorial Plate (tondino): The story of King Midas

Nicola da Urbino (Italian, active by 1520–died ?1537/38 Urbino)

Date: ca. 1520–1525
Accession Number: 1975.1.1019

Untitled

Sigmar Polke (German, Olésnica [Oels] 1941–2010 Cologne)

Date: 1975
Accession Number: 1992.5154

Mechanical Dog

Date: ca. 1390–1353 B.C.
Accession Number: 40.2.1

The Antioch "Chalice"

Date: 500–550
Accession Number: 50.4

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Date: late 16th–early 17th century
Accession Number: 17.190.858

Celestial globe with clockwork

Gerhard Emmoser (working 1556–died 1584)

Date: 1579
Accession Number: 17.190.636

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Milan or Caravaggio 1571–1610 Porto Ercole)

Date: ca. 1595
Accession Number: 52.81

Velvet with Figural Imagery

Date: mid-16th century
Accession Number: 52.20.11

Portrait of a Gentleman

Henry Benbridge (1743–1812)

Date: ca. 1770
Accession Number: 1996.563

Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Hart

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) (Italian, active Venice by ca. 1472–died before 1498)

Date: last quarter 15th century
Accession Number: 1975.1.86

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Date: ca. 1300
Accession Number: 1979.402

Gold Neck Ring

Date: 6th–4th century B.C.
Accession Number: 2005.366

Celery vase

Attributed to Boston & Sandwich Glass Company (1825–1888)

Date: 1827–35
Accession Number: 1986.237

Holy Face

Gerard David (Netherlandish, Oudewater ca. 1455–1523 Bruges)

Date: ca. 1485–90
Accession Number: 1975.1.2486

Dung-Chen

Date: 1368–1644
Accession Number: 1988.349

Ceremonial Banner (Palepai Maju)

Date: probably 18th century
Accession Number: 1990.335.28

Midshipman Augustus Brine

John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London)

Date: 1782
Accession Number: 43.86.4

Linen Press

Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony (American, 1902–1915)

Date: ca. 1904
Accession Number: 1991.311.1

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio from a Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds)

Painting by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610)

Date: ca. 1600
Accession Number: 63.210.11

Evening dress

Weeks (French)

Date: ca. 1911
Accession Number: C.I.57.17.3

Headdress (Kapurei [?])

Date: late 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 1981.331.1

Statuette of Kery

Date: ca. 1304–1237 B.C.
Accession Number: 65.114

Standing figure of Amenhotep III

Date: ca. 1391–1353 B.C.
Accession Number: 30.8.74

The Lighthouse at Two Lights

Edward Hopper (American, Nyack, New York 1882–1967 New York City)

Date: 1929
Accession Number: 62.95

Seated Bishop

Tilman Riemenschneider (German, 1460–1531)

Date: ca. 1495
Accession Number: 1970.137.1

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova (Italian, Possagno 1757–1822 Venice)

Date: 1804–6
Accession Number: 67.110.1

Pensive Bodhisattva

Date: mid-7th century
Accession Number: 2003.222

The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)

Thomas Eakins (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1844–1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Date: 1871
Accession Number: 34.92

Tea Infuser and Strainer

Marianne Brandt (German, Chemnitz 1893–1984 Kirchberg)

Date: ca. 1924
Accession Number: 2000.63a-c

Brooklyn Bridge

John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)

Date: ca. 1912
Accession Number: 49.70.105

Woman Grinding Coffee

Jean Dubuffet (French, Le Havre 1901–1985 Paris)

Date: 1945
Accession Number: 1995.142

Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

Date: ca. A.D. 41–54
Accession Number: 42.11.30

Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)

Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)

Date: 1836
Accession Number: 1975.1.162

Suzu

Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 89.4.94

Head of Tutankhamun

Date: ca. 1336–1327 B.C.
Accession Number: 50.6

Astronomicum Caesareum

Michael Ostendorfer (German, (?) ca. 1490 - 1549 Regensburg)

Date: May 1540
Accession Number: 25.17

Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee

workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (Italian (Gubbio), active first half of 16th century)

Date: 1528
Accession Number: 1975.1.1103

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia

Author: David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864)

Date: 1842–49
Accession Number: 903.6 R541 F

Striding Thoth

Date: 332–30 B.C.
Accession Number: 26.7.860