A yogini bearing a jar. One of 19 known sculptures from a set originating in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India. — Yogini with a jar, early 10th century
India

G211

pendant suspended from a garland of twin rudraksha berries; central gold piece depicting two figures on a bull; one emerald pendant at bottom split during installation, two pieces stored in envelope in A12.3 MS — Rudrakshamala Necklace, early 19th century
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Nkisi Nkonde (nail fetish); a fetish figure in wood; the surface is covered with a variety of accoutrements: nails, reed, shells, bone, wood, string and clay; the 'magic' receptacle in the abdominal area bears a mirror — Power figure, early 20th century
Kongo

G250

St. Jerome, Adam Lenckhardt — St. Jerome, c. 1635
Adam Lenckhardt

G341

four horizontal panels with multiple figures in various poses: standing, riding bicycles, riding animals, seated; incised horizontal bars divide panels — Palace door, early 20th century
Areogun of Osi

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Mende Society Mask, wood and raffia, Mende Tribe, Sierra Leone, Africa, XIX c. Msmt.s of helmet only. *Med.Raffia ?- Poss. Human Hair! — Sande mask, second quarter of 20th century
Mende

G254

vessel with handle, surmounted by female head; opening of vessel is through top of figure's headdress; surface has glossy appearance; dark clay body — Vessel, 20th century
Mangbetu

G236

Bust of the Greek Slave, after 1845-1846

Hiram Powers

G365

Worship and devotion non-Christian religions — Young Greeks in the Mosque, 1865
Jean-Léon Gérôme

G357

Adam and Eve, Albrecht Dürer — Adam and Eve, 1504
Albrecht Dürer

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Marilyn Monroe, Actress, Richard Avedon; Publisher: Richard Avedon — Marilyn Monroe, Actress, May 6, 1957
Richard Avedon; Publisher: Richard Avedon

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large oblong plate — The Three Crosses, 1655
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

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Ear Hangers coins, amber, and shells, green and yellow enamel — Ear pendants (tiboukaria), 1880-1900
Amazigh (Berber)

G254

Portrait of Ruggiero Leoncavallo — Portrait of Ruggiero Leoncavallo, 1906
Giovanni Boldini

G351

pitcher, ceramic-porcelain; 'Grecian' type with enamel-painted floral sprays and gilded decoration — Pitcher, 1827–1832
Andrew Craig Walker; Manufacturer: Tucker China Manufactory

G333

Ptolemaic Ruler in the Guise of Hercules, Graeco-Egyptian — Ptolemaic Ruler in the Guise of Hercules, 2nd century BCE
Graeco-Egyptian

G242

Head from an image of a diefied king carved in sandstone wearing a very elaborate crown and a diadem tied with a knot at the back of his head. Crisply delineated facial features carved in high and low relief. Original encrusted patina. First Angkor style, style of Koh Ker, Cambodia. — Head from an Image of Vishnu or a Deified King, early 9th century
Cambodia

G213

Kapkap tortoise shell, giant clam — Kapkap, 19th century
Solomon Islands

G256

Elephant Mask, Bamileke — Elephant Mask, c. 1900
Bamileke

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large bowl with 2 scrolling handles with openwork triangles; 4 circular feet; geometric band carved at lip — Prestige Bowl (purukei), c. 1900
Admiralty Islands

G256

Judith presented to Holofernes — Judith Presenting Herself to Holofernes, 1720s
Antonio Gionima

G340

Light golden brown patination. After the monument in Dijon, France, commissioned 1852. — Hebe and the Eagle of Jupiter, model c. 1853-55 (casting history and edition size unknown)
François Rude; Caster: Thièbaut Frères

G354

Portrait of Cleméntine Karr — Portrait of Clémentine (Mrs. Alphonse) Karr, 1845
Henri Lehmann

G357

Madonna Enthroned with the Christ Child, marble. — Madonna Enthroned in Majesty with the Christ Child, late 12th century
France

G340

False door in the name of Iry-en-Akhet whose "beautiful name" is Iry. — False door, about 2400 BCE
Ancient Egyptian

G250

carved frame around blank canvas, displayed with back of frame facing out, resting on two blocks covered with blue carpet; back of canvas is covered with cork; two large twill straps screwed into frame at bottom; tension springs and rods at corners and center of stretcher; handing loops at left and right sides; "E8290" in white on right side of frame; MIA's permanent collection label for Rembrandt's "Lucretia" at top; small MIA loan tag in ULC Scotch taped to stretcher; scallop-edged sticker at top center on stretcher; white tape on shims between stretcher and frame edges — Verso (Rembrandt, Lucretia), 2012
Vik Muniz

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Modello for Neoclassical design, wax on wood panel, French/Italian, XVIIIc no painted number, frame loose — Modello for a neoclassical design for boiserie decoration, 18th century
Francesco Bolgiè

G314

General Brune, 1763-1815, was commander-in-chief of the army of Italy and of the French forces in Switzerland; in this portrait he wears 'petit uniforme' of a general of an artillery division — Bust of General Guillaume Brune, c. 1800
Joseph Chinard

G310

Stoup (holy water basin), Giovanni Giardini da Forli — Stoup (holy water basin), c. 1715
Giovanni Giardini da Forli

G350

standing woman dressed in green and turquoise robes, holding a badminton racket in her PR hand and a shuttlecock at her PL shoulder — Battledore, 1868-1870
Albert Joseph Moore

G357

Oceanus, god of the river. Frontal bearded head with silver inlaid eyes against a formalized background of the scales of his body, within a modelled rim. Small cheeks, nose and forehead. Two dolphins rampant above act as a crown; two fish peer from the locks of his hair; two more dive out of his beard. top of roundel broken and missing — Boss with Head of Oceanus, 1st-2nd century
Roman

G242

Plate, England — Plate, c. 1885
England

G334

Buddhist Altar Bell, Indonesia — Buddhist Altar Bell, 10th century
Indonesia

G213

vessel with handle, surmounted by male head; opening of vessel is through top of figure's headdress; surface has glossy appearance; dark clay body — Vessel in the shape of a Male Head, 20th century
Mangbetu

G236

Sources of Strength, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith — Sources of Strength, 1990
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

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Hand Amulet; Hand of Fatima metal, red glass cabuchon, enamel — Hand pendant, about 1850
Morocco

G254

hand-wrought; flat center with small hammered circles; walls of vertical waved lines all facing the same direction — Bowl, c. 1948
Serge Nekrassoff

G334

standing female figure with proper left arm bent, hand at side; flat mask like face, adorned by earrings and necklace; ridged dress extends to floor covering legs and feet — Haniwa of a Female Shrine Attendant, 6th century
Japan

G205

Charger, Max Laeuger — Charger, c. 1900-1905
Max Laeuger

G334

Winter Horse Raiding Episode, Old Bull — Winter Horse Raiding Episode, c. 1910
Old Bull

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Charger, Rembrandt Pottery Factory, Gouda, The Netherlands, 1925–1955 — Charger, c. 1927
Rembrandt Pottery Factory, Gouda, The Netherlands, 1925–1955

G334

Red and bright blue feathers, each with small black and white, blue, red and yellow feathers attached to quill end; quills wrapped in red and green ribbon and connected to leather tubes; tubes bundled into multicolored beaded handle with white fringe — Feather Fan, 1999
Barry Belindo

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Love Dies in Time, Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan — Love Dies in Time, 1878
Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan

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Storage box for this object is in D10 MS — Long-stemmed goblet, c. 1900
Friedrich Zitzmann

G379

Mask, Guro — Mask, 19th century
Guro

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Feast Spoon with Bird Effigy, carved wood, with metal stand, North America, Chippewa — Ladle, c. 1860
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)

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Feast Ladle with Bird Effigy, carved wood, with metal stand, North America, Seneca — Ladle, 20th century
Seneca Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)

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Slit Drum (garamut), Papua New Guinea — Slit Drum (garamut), 20th century
Papua New Guinea

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two figures; larger human figure carved in the round; hand with four fingers held at chest and stomach; eyes and mouth inlaid with mother-of-pearl; arms, legs and face carved with geometric patterns of circles and bands; larger figure stands on top of a much smaller, more representative figure with three fingers and tongue hanging out, overall rectangular in shape — Tekoteko, 18th century
Māori

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Breast Plaque of beaten gold. Three breast motifs. From Sona region of Veraguas Province, Panama. — Breast Plaque, c. 800 - 1400 CE
Veraguas

G260

pipe bowl with elk image, about 1860, carved stone — Pipe Bowl, c. 1860
Lakȟóta

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Light yellow interior; short, bulbous body resting on a splaying foot with a flaring wide neck; neck decorated with 3 circular cartouches surrounding horses with crowns on their backs and dark blue pseudo-Islamic text against a light blue ground; white 'text' and foliage on body; floral designs on foot — Vase in the form of a mosque lamp, c. 1870
Joseph-Théodore Deck

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Child Baptist in the Wilderness, accompanied by a lamb. — The Child Baptist in the Wilderness, c. 1776
Sir Joshua Reynolds

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drinking cup carved in the form of a nautilus shell — Drinking cup, c. 1600
Joerg Ruel

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Madonna and Child, Attributed to Carlo Maratti — Madonna and Child, 1711
Attributed to Carlo Maratti

G330

One of the twelve generals of Yakushi Buddha, with strong remains of original pigments. Original wood stand — Divine General, late 12th century-early 13th century
Joga

G200

Water, England — Water, 19th century
England

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Multi strand black leather necklace with three tassels. Has a silver pyramidal shaped pendant with a flat back. Looks like a step pyramid with a diamond shape in center with engraving design around it. Silver ball on the center of the diamond shape. — Amulet (tcherot), 20th century
Tuareg

G254

in silver frame; central section the Marriage at Cana; below the Raising of Lazarus; the lozenge the Baptism of Christ; the borders are filled with foliage and representations of angel musicians; the coat of arms of Cardinal Balue, for whom the book cover was made, appear at the mid points — Book cover with scenes from the life of Christ, c. 1467-1469
Italy

G350

two phoenixes at center, perched on a gnarled tree branch; waves at L; greens, blues, pink and white; seal and inscription, LRC — Phoenixes and Paulownia [right of a pair], early 18th century
Kano Tanshin

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a bronze reduction fabricated by an unknown craftsman after a larger marble begun by Marsys and completed by Flamen — Boreas Abducting Orithyia, c. 1700
after Gaspard Marsy; Sculptor: after Anselme Flamen

G310

hand-wrought; base wavy lines pointed out from center and waving in one direction; twisted center column; plain cup; drip cup has wavy edges — Candlestick, one of a pair, c. 1948
Serge Nekrassoff

G334

San Francisco, Robert Frank — San Francisco, 1956
Robert Frank

G368

Marriage ceremony — The Marriage of the Duke and Duchess of York, 1791
Sir Henry Singleton

G324

Modelled by Kandler for Count Bruhl. — Armorial plate from the "Swan service", one of a pair, 1737-1741
Johann Joachim Kändler

G319

alley/ pedestrian street with vending machine and flowering cherry blossom tree on R; black metal frame on light box — Tokyo Story 7: Nightfall (after Hiroshige), 2011
Emily Allchurch

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pointillist style; shades of white, blue, blue-grey, cream; snow falling; snow-covered ground with two pairs of tracks in foreground, LRQ; five snow-covered evergreen trees — Winter Landscape, 1908
Gustaf Edolf Fjaestad

G355

black ground with white and brownish lines scratched in circular design; white wood frame with glass — Throw (C-918), 2009
Marco Breuer

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Study for the Assumption of the Virgin, Jean-Baptiste Deshays — Study for the Assumption of the Virgin, 1758
Jean-Baptiste Deshays

G314

Tipi Cover, No Two Horns — Tipi Cover, c. 1915
No Two Horns

G261

Chief's rattle; depicts the raven lengend a raven is shown with a human figure reclining on his back; the man holds a frog's tongue in his mouth in the act of sucking out a person which was believed to be helpful to shamans in their mystical rituals; the frog's body emerges from a hawk; the rounded underside of the raven's body is carved to represent a sparrow hawk; polychromed cedarwood sewn together with leather, inlaid abalone eyes in the raven — Rattle, c. 1850-1910
probably Haida

G261

silver gilt, separates into five parts; fluted foot and bowl with four panels embossed with scenes of the life of the emperor Caligula and capped with a cast and chased figure of Emperor Augustus — Tazza, c. 1575–1599
Rome, Italy

G350

lidded tureen with bulbous body with melon reeding which is repeated on the cover; band of cast and chased flowers and leaf motifs at rim of tureen and base of foot; leaf motifs chased and in repoussé at base; lid has flowers and leaf design in repoussé within melon reeding; cast finial of basket of fruit; scroll handles with cast and chased leafage — Tureen, c. 1830
William Gale; Silversmith: Joseph Moseley working in partnership, New York City, 1828-1833

G350

Arms of Pope Paul III (reigned 1534–49), c. 1540

Italy

G235

Shield, Attributed to Humped-Wolf; Artist: Full-Mouth Buffalo — Shield, c. 1870
Attributed to Humped-Wolf; Artist: Full-Mouth Buffalo

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central seated figure (Ksitigarbha) holding a clear sphere between cupped hands, circles about body and head; figure surrounded by people with two smaller figures below. — Ksitigarbha and the Ten Kings of Hell, 18th century
Korea

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Dutch and English battle at sea — The Four Days’ Battle, 1666
Abraham Storck

G309

three panels joined; fringe on both ends; silk brocade with supplementary weft patterning; blue field with bands of geometric design; side stripes red, blue, green and yellow — Woman's Dress (kira; ngoshem), c. 1920
Bhutan

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multi-colored design of blues and purples on green — Panel, 20th century
France

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with supplementary weft pattern; fine leaf pattern in light green and pink with interspersed purple and pink splotches — Chiné piece, late 19th century
France

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multi-colored floral designs with brown, green and reds predominating — Chiné piece, late 19th century
France

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blue, yellow and pink flowers on a dark blue background — Chiné piece, 19th century
France

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floral pattern of pinks, greens, and blues on white background — Chiné piece, late 19th century
France

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floral pattern on checked pattern, blue, gray, and white predominating — Chiné piece, early 20th century
France

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blue flower motif repeated on an ivory background — Textile, 20th century
France

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striped and dotted background with floral bouquet design — Moiré chiné piece, 19th century
France

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brown and blue-green flowers and leaves on an olive colored background — Chiné piece, 19th century
France

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green, blue, red and yellow floral arrangements on white — Moiré chiné piece, late 19th-early 20th century
France

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repeated single red and yellow flower on green and white checkered background — Chiné piece, late 19th century
France

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a-chest; b-e-drawers; top and front bow shape with carved columns on either side and a squared platform with carefully restored inverted beehive feet (later casters placed); front drawers retain rosewood turned knobs, also rosewood cock beading on drawer edges; tinted shellac finish — Chest of drawers, c. 1825
United States

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Fabric panel with multicolored stripes; sleeve sewn at back along one long side; 4 lines of Arabic text in gold embroidery bordered with red surrounded by gold embroidered decorative borders — Invocation Panel, Date Unknown
Indonesia

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imitation of Greek Klismos design; having 2 pieces laminated over extending crest rail upon continuing molded stiles which curve down to a raised volute at the front of the seat, there being a stylized rosette and leaf carved horizontal back splat, the rosette turning being somewhat similar to the handles of the accompanying commode; base with corresponding molded front legs and is of the curule pattern; at its tops on the sides are incised carved fans; stepped up rosettes are at the tops of these bases, both having been replaced on one chair — Side chair, one of a pair, c. 1825
United States

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Polyphemus, France — Polyphemus, c. 1700
France

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warp face plain weave; some warp ikat patterning; added end bands with supplimentary weft patterning — Ragidup (Ceremonial Cloth), 20th century
Indonesia

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light brown bamboo vest style undergarment — Sleeveless undergarment, late 19th century
China

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dark bamboo sleeved undergarment with leather tie in front — Sleeved undergarment, late 19th century
China

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Plaque depicting fight between monster and horse. — Plaque, 400 BCE
Mongolia

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Arm Bracelet, Dong Song — Arm Bracelet, 7th-6th century BCE
Dong Song

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Axe Head, Dong Song — Axe Head, 7th-6th century BCE
Dong Song

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Vasudeva carries the Infant Krishna across the Yamuna River, India — Vasudeva carries the Infant Krishna across the Yamuna River, c. 1720
India

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