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"Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1988-1989": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 47, no. 2 (Fall, 1989)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 47 | NUMBER 2

"Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1988–1989"

Various authors

1989

96 pages

This title is out of print.

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Table of contents

About the authors

Foreword

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Greek and Roman Art

Islamic Art

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Arms and Armor

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

European Paintings

Drawings

Prints and Photographs

Musical Instruments

Costume Institute

American Paintings and Sculpture

American Decorative Arts

Twentieth Century Art

Primitive Art

Asian Art

Met Art in Publication

Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars, Clay, Sumerian — Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars
ca. 3100–2900 BCE

Terracotta hydria (water jar), Lydos, Terracotta, Greek, Attic — Terracotta hydria (water jar)
Lydos
ca. 560 BCE

Jewelry Elements, Gold sheet; worked, chased, and set with turquoise, gray chalcedony, and glass — Jewelry Elements
late 14th–16th century

Brazier, Bronze; cast and chased — Brazier
probably 15th century

"Allegory of Worldly and Otherworldly Drunkenness", Folio from the Divan of Hafiz, Hafiz Iranian, Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper — "Allegory of Worldly and Otherworldly Drunkenness", Folio from the Divan of Hafiz
Hafiz
ca. 1531–33

Brazier of Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn 'Umar, Brass; cast, chased, and inlaid with silver and black compound — Brazier of Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn 'Umar
second half 13th century

Bottle, Stonepaste; molded and glazed — Bottle
mid-17th century

Belt Buckle, Copper alloy with garnets, glass, lapis lazuli, and cuttlefish bone, Visigothic — Belt Buckle
550–600

Game Piece with the Blinded Samson Led by a Boy to the Philistine Temple of Dagon, Walrus ivory, German — Game Piece with the Blinded Samson Led by a Boy to the Philistine Temple of Dagon
ca. 1150

Double-Sided Ivory Liturgical Comb with Scenes of Henry II and Thomas Becket, Elephant ivory, British — Double-Sided Ivory Liturgical Comb with Scenes of Henry II and Thomas Becket
ca. 1200–1210

Osculatory, Silver, silver gilt, and mother-of-pearl, Austrian — Osculatory
ca. 1490

Roundel with Allegorical Figure, Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain, South Netherlandish — Roundel with Allegorical Figure
ca. 1510–15

Saint Anthony Abbot, Nikolaus von Hagenau German, Walnut, German — Saint Anthony Abbot
Nikolaus von Hagenau
ca. 1500

Armor of Infante Luis, Prince of Asturias (1707–1724), Jean Drouart French, Steel, gold, brass, silk, cotton, metallic yarn, paper, French, Paris — Armor of Infante Luis, Prince of Asturias (1707–1724)
Jean Drouart
dated 1712

Ring with the Name of Pope Paul II (r. 1464–71), Gilt brass, blue glass, Italian, Rome — Ring with the Name of Pope Paul II (r. 1464–71)
1464–71

The Mass of St. Gregory, Wood, polychromed, gilt and silvered, Spanish, Castilian — The Mass of St. Gregory
1550–60

Henri IV, Marie de Médicis and the Dauphin, Guillaume Dupré French, Bronze, French, Paris — Henri IV, Marie de Médicis and the Dauphin
Guillaume Dupré
1605

Lion (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory German, Hard-paste porcelain, German, Meissen — Lion (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory
ca. 1732

Lioness (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory German, Hard-paste porcelain, German, Meissen — Lioness (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory
ca. 1732

Themire Crowned by Graces, Sèvres Manufactory French, Soft-paste porcelain, in original gilt wood frame, French, Sèvres — Themire Crowned by Graces
Sèvres Manufactory
1777

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