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Aegis of Sekhmet or Bastet, Third Intermediate Period and later (ca. 1070–332 B.C.), Egyptian, Faience (10.130.2055) |
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Belt buckle: paired felines attacking ibexes, Xiongnu type, 3rd–2nd century B.C., Mongolia or southern Siberia, Gold (17.190.1672) |
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Bronze pointed neck-amphora with stand, ca. 500–450 B.C.,
Greek, Bronze (2004.171a,b)
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Bronze waterspout in the form of a lion mask, ca. 100 B.C.–100 A.D.; late Hellenistic or early Roman; Greco-Roman style, Greco-Roman; From Cyprus, Bronze (74.51.5677) |
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Brooch in the Shape of a Panther, 100–300, Roman, Copper alloy with silver and niello inlays (47.100.18) |
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Cameo with Hercules, ca. 1220, Probably made in southern Italy, Sardonyx with modern gold frame (38.150.23) |
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Cat, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 400–30 B.C., Egyptian, Bronze (56.16.1) |
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Centuripe vase, ca. 400–375 B.C.; Hellenistic, Italic-Native, Sicilian (Centuripe) Terracotta (53.11.5) |
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Ceremonial Metate, 10th–11th century, Honduras, Stone (1979.206.887) |
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Cosmetic Jar in the Form of a Cat, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1991–1783 B.C., Egyptian, Egyptian alabaster (calcite) with inlaid eyes of rock crystal and copper (1990.59.1) |
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Dinos (mixing bowl), ca. 630–615 B.C.,
Attributed to the Polyteleia Painter,
Greek, Corinthian (Transitional Period),
Terracotta (1997.36) |
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Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), possibly 1790s, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish), Oil on canvas (49.7.41)an |
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Doorway, carved in the 1000s, assembled in 1100s or 1200s, Central Italian; Sangemini, from the abbey church of San Nicolò, Marble (47.100.45) |
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Double page from a Divan (Anthology) of Sultan Husain Baiqara, 1500; Timurid, Calligraphy by Sultan cAli Mashhadi, Afghanistan (Herat), Ink, colors, and gold on paper (1982.120.1) |
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Double Vessel with Mouse, 4th–8th century, Peru; Recuay, Ceramic (66.30.2) |
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Double-Chambered Vessel, 5th century, Mexico or Guatemala; Maya, Ceramic (1978.412.90a,b) |
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Feline Bottle, 12th–15th century, Peru; Chimú, Ceramic (64.228.17) |
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Feline figure, 1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.,
Ecuador; Tolita/Tumaco,
Ceramic (1991.436.8) |
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Feline head bottle, 9th–5th century B.C.,
Peru; Tembladera,
Ceramic (1978.412.203) |
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Feline Incense Vessel, 6th–9th century,
Bolivia; Tiwanaku,
Ceramic (1978.412.100) |
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Foundation peg in the shape of the forepart of a lion, 2200–2000 B.C., Probably Tell Mozan (ancient Urkish), northeastern Syria, Bronze (48.180) |
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Funerary stele (shaft) surmounted by two sphinxes, last quarter of 5th century B.C.; Classical, Cypriot; Said to be from the necropolis at Golgoi, Limestone (74.51.2499) |
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Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls, 1820–1740 B.C.; Old Assyrian Trading Colony period, Probably Acemhöyük, Central Anatolia, Ivory (Hippopotamus), gold foil (32.161.46) |
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Gold stater, ca. 560–546 B.C., Lydian; From Sardis, Gold (26.59.2) |
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Helmet, late 7th century B.C.; Archaic, Greek, Cretan, Bronze (1989.281.49) |
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Incense burner, 1181–1182; Seljuq, Jacfar ibn Muhammad ibn cAli, Khorasan (eastern Iran), Iran; Found in Khorasan (eastern Iran), Tay-abad (Kariz), Iran, Cast bronze with openwork decoration (51.56) |
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Initial V from a Bible, ca. 1175–1195, French; From the Abbey of Pontigny, Tempera on parchment (1999.364.2) |
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Inkstand, 1802,
John Plimmer (British),
Silver, (1976.424.2a-j) |
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Intaglio of a venator fighting a lion, 1st century A.D.; Late Augustan to Flavian, Roman, Carnelian (41.160.710) |
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Jug with a lion handle, late Dynasty XIX–Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1188–712 B.C.), From Bubastis, Silver (07.228.187) |
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Lion (one of a pair), ca. 1732–35, Manufactured by Meissen; After a model by Johann Gottlob Kirchner (German), German (Meissen), Hard-paste porcelain (1988.294.1) |
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Lion and Dragon in Combat, mid-17th century; Safavid, Signed by Muhammad Baqir, Iran, Ink and transparent color on paper (1974.20) |
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Lion Aquamanile, ca. 1400, German; Made in Nuremberg, Latten alloy (1994.244) |
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Lion felling a bull, from a marble pediment, 525–500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Parian marble (42.11.35) |
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Lion from a Frieze, after 1200, Spanish; Made in Burgos, Castile-León, Fresco, mounted on canvas (31.38.1a) |
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Lion head plaque, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C.,
Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu,
Ivory (65.163.22) |
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Lion head terminal, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C.,
Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu,
Bronze (63.109.1) |
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Lion mask door pull, ca. 1425–50,
Germany; Nuremberg,
Copper alloy (2007.20) |
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Lion, cast 1000–1100,
Probably South Italy,
Bronze (originally gilded and inlaid) (L.2000.84) |
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Lion, Early Dynastic Period, Dynasties 1–2, ca. 3000–2700 B.C., Egyptian; Perhaps from Gebelein, Upper Egypt, Quartz (66.99.2) |
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Masquerade tunic, late 19th–early 20th century, Kingdom of Bamilike, Cameroon Grassfields, Plant fiber, human hair (1994.413.2) |
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Mirror with a support in the form of a nude girl, second half of 6th century B.C.,
Laconian; Said to be from southern Italy,
Bronze (38.11.3) |
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Neck amphora (storage jar), ca. 620/615–595/590 B.C.,
Greek, Corinthian; Said to be from Capua,
Terracotta (06.1021.18) |
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Neck from a vessel depicting the goddess Hathor flanked by felines, late Dynasty XIX–Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1188–712 B.C.), From Bubastis, Silver, gold (30.8.370) |
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Ostracon, New Kingdom, Dynasties 19–20, ca. 1295–?1069 B.C., Egyptian; From the Valley of the Kings, western Thebes, Painted limestone (26.7.1453) |
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Pair of incense burners, Yuan dynasty, ca. early 14th century; Qingbai ware, China, Probably from kilns in the vicinity of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, Porcelain with brown, low- and full-relief decoration under bluish white glaze (34.113.2,3) |
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Pair of Keros with Carved Feline Handles, 17th–18th century, Peru, Wood with pigmented resin inlay (1994.35.22,.23) |
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Panel from a Buddhist ritual crown, late 13th–early 14th century, Tibet, Distemper on wood (1997.152) |
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Panel: striding lion, 604–562 B.C.; Neo-Babylonian period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, Excavated at Wall of Processional Way, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Glazed brick (31.13.2) |
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Panther and Cubs, ca. 1850–55, Henry Kirke Brown (American), Bronze (1992.372) |
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Pedestal Bowl, 14th–15th century
Mexico; Mixtec, Ceramic (1979.206.365) |
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Pin with recumbent lion, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C.,
Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu,
Bronze (61.100.10) |
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Plaque with sphinxes, 9th–8th century B.C.; Neo-Assyrian period; Syrian style, Arslan Tash(?), Syria, Ivory with traces of gold foil (57.80.4a,b) |
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Rank badge, Ming dynasty, early 15th century, China, Embroidery: colored silk floss, wrapped gold thread, and flat gold on silk gauze (1988.154.1) |
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Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat, 1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.; Parthian period, Iran, Gilded silver (1979.447) |
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Ritual Vessel (Paccha), 15th–early 16th century, Peru; Inka, Ceramic (1979.206.1149) |
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Royal Tiger, 1829,
Eugène Delacroix (French),
Lithograph (67.630.7) |
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Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head, 1470–80, Italian, Steel, copper-gilt, glass, polychromy (23.141) |
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Samson Rending the Lion, ca. 1497–98, Albrecht Dürer (German), Woodcut (24.63.111) |
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Sarcophagus lid, 6th century B.C.,
Klazomenian,
Terracotta (21.169.1) |
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Sleeved Tunic, 12th–15th century, Peru; Chimú, Cotton, camelid hair (1979.206.588) |
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Tyger (Plate 42), 1794/ca. 1825,
William Blake (British), Copy Y, ca. 1825,
Relief etchings printed in orange-brown ink, heightened with watercolor and shell gold, with hand-painted decorative borders, (17.10.42) |
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Sorgheloos in Poverty, 1510–1520, North Lowlands, Colorless glass with vitreous paint and silver stain (1999.243) |
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Spotted feline, 1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.,
Ecuador; Tolita/Tumaco,
Bone (1980.34.22) |
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Stalking Panther, 1891–92; revised mid-1890s; this cast, ca. 1914–17, Alexander Phimister Proctor (American), Bronze (1996.561) |
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Statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions, Imperial, second half of 2nd century A.D.,
Roman,
Bronze (97.22.24), |
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Stirrup-spout bottle, 12th–5th century B.C.,
Peru; Cupisnique,
Ceramic (1978.412.38) |
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Strigilated sarcophagus, Late Severan, 220 A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (2005.258) |
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Terracotta hydria (water jar), ca. 520–510 B.C.; black-figure,
Greek, Caeretan,
Attributed to the Eagle Painter (64.11.1) |
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Textile Fragment with Printed Lions, 10th–11th century, Iran or Afghanistan, Silk and cotton, printed (31.106.64) |
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Tomb Effigy of Ermengol VII, 1320–1340, Spanish; From the Church of Santa María de Bellpuiq de las Avellanes, Catalonia, Limestone, polychromy (28.95) |
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Tomb panel with relief of figures in a pavilion, Eastern Han dynasty, early 2nd century, Shandong Province, China, Limestone (20.99) |
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Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac, Qing dynasty, 19th century, China, Jade (nephrite) (02.18.730) |
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Two Panels of an Ivory Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian, 521, Byzantine; Made in Constantinople, Ivory (17.190.52, 53) |
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Vessel terminating in the forepart of a lion, Achaemenid, 5th century B.C.,
Iran, Gold (54.3.3) |
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Whistling bottle with feline face, 4th–3rd century B.C.,
Peru; Paracas,
Ceramic, postfired paint (62.266.72) |
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Wolf and Fox Hunt, ca. 1615–21, Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop (Flemish), Oil on canvas (10.73) |
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