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Cup with a frieze of gazelles

Date: ca. early 1st millennium B.C.
Accession Number: 62.84

Foundation peg in the form of the forepart of a lion

Date: ca. 2200–2100 B.C.
Accession Number: 48.180

Clasp with an eagle and its prey

Date: ca. A.D. 1st–2nd century
Accession Number: 17.190.2055

Beaker with birds and animals

Date: ca. 4th century B.C.
Accession Number: 47.100.88

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher

Date: ca. 1375–1425
Accession Number: 17.190.361

Beaker with birds on the rim

Date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C.
Accession Number: 1989.281.38

Processional cross

Date: ca. 1460–80
Accession Number: 17.190.499

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Date: 629–630
Accession Number: 17.190.396

Koto

Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan (1603 - 1673)

Date: early 17th century
Accession Number: 2007.194a–f

Top for standard

Date: ca. 8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 1996.82.1

Ceremonial Objectl in the Shape of an Ax

Date: ca. 100 B.C.–A.D. 300
Accession Number: 1993.525

Dish: The Destruction of the Hosts of Pharoah

Master IC (probably Jean Court) (French, Limoges, active 1614 - 1627)

Date: probably early 17th century
Accession Number: 1975.1.1232

Processional Cross

Date: ca. 1150–75
Accession Number: 17.190.1406

Dish in the Shape of a Leaf

Date: late 7th–early 8th century
Accession Number: 1974.268.11

Spoon holder

Design attributed to Christopher Dresser (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1834–1904 Mulhouse)

Date: ca. 1878–81
Accession Number: 1988.164

Shrine

Matthias Walbaum (1554–1632, active Augsburg 1579–1632)

Date: 1598–1600
Accession Number: 17.190.823

Rosewater ewer

Possibly by Johann Erhard Heiglen (German, before 1687–1757)

Date: ca. 1730
Accession Number: 1977.1.11

Striding figure with ibex horns, a raptor skin draped around the shoulders, and upturned boots

Date: ca. 3000 B.C.
Accession Number: 2007.280

Celestial globe with clockwork

Gerhard Emmoser (working 1556–died 1584)

Date: 1579
Accession Number: 17.190.636

Ewer

Date: Chinese porcelain (Wanli period), 1573–1620; English mounts, ca. 1585
Accession Number: 44.14.2

Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon

Date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C.
Accession Number: 1982.5

Royal or divine figure with high conical headdress

Date: ca. 18th–17th century B.C.
Accession Number: 1985.262.2

Vessel stand with ibex support

Date: ca. 2600–2350 B.C.
Accession Number: 1974.190

Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh

Date: ca. 5th century A.D.
Accession Number: 1994.402

Aquamanile in the form of a Lion

Date: ca. 1400
Accession Number: 1994.244

Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel

Date: ca. 3100–2900 B.C.
Accession Number: 66.173

Belt clasp

Date: ca. A.D. 1st–2nd century
Accession Number: 21.166.5

Plaque with horned lion-griffins

Date: ca. 6th–4th century B.C.
Accession Number: 54.3.2

Wing Brooch

Date: 2nd century
Accession Number: 1998.76

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

Date: ca. 14th–13th century B.C.
Accession Number: 1989.281.10