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Rock Crystal Roller

Unknown Artist, late 19th century

Rock crystal, with red-and-white coral beads at either end, brass brace, and coral handle

19th centuryChinese

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Jade Terminal with Silk Tassel for Rock Crystal Roller (1942.185.192.D)

Unknown Artist, late 19th century

Greenish white nephrite with gold-colored silk tassel

19th centuryChinese

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Jade Brush Holder in the Form of a Section of Weathered Pine Trunk

Unknown Artist, late 17th-early 18th century, probably Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Pale greenish white nephrite

17th-18th centuryChinese

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Jade Square Brush Holder, Each Side with Decoration of Figures in a Garden

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century, probably early 19th century

Pale greenish white nephrite

18th-19th centuryChinese

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Jade Cylindrical Brush Holder with Five Small Feet and with Decoration of Figures in a Mountainous Landscape

Unknown Artist, dated to 1795, Qianlong period

Dark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with dated inscription of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736-95) incised around the rim

18th centuryChinese

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Jade Brush Handle (with brush cap)

Unknown Artist, 1368 - 1911

Light gray-green, partly discolored nephrite

Chinese

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Jade Brush Cap (with brush handle)

Unknown Artist, 1368 - 1911

Light gray-green, partly discolored nephrite

Chinese

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Wood-engraving block: The Auctioneer

Charles Maurand, 19th-20th century

19th-20th centuryFrench

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Wood-engraving block: "Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, and yet I could not die"

Gustave Doré, 19th century

19th centuryFrench

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Wood-engraving block: "I pass like night, from land to land, I have strange power of speech" (plate 18)

Gustave Doré, 19th century

19th centuryFrench

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Wood-engraving block: "The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled"

Gustave Doré, 19th century

19th centuryFrench

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Wood-engraving block: "So lovely twas, that God Himself scarce seemed there to be"

Gustave Doré, 19th century

19th centuryFrench

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Wood-engraving block: A Shepherd of Estremadura

Gustave Doré, c. 1862-1873

19th centuryFrench

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Wood-engraving Block: NOW

Eric Gill, 19th-20th century

19th-20th centuryBritish

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Cylindrical Brushpot with Black Glaze and Traces of Floral Decoration

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Monochrome glazed ware, "mirror black" type: porcelain with black glaze and with traces of decoration in overglaze gold enamel

Chinese

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Boulloterion (Sealing Device): Obv: Inscription with Invocation and Owner's Name and Title; Rev: Bust of Saint Nicholas

Unknown Artist, 850-1100

Iron

9th-11th centuryByzantine

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Stamp with the Head of Gushtasp for Block Printing on Cotton (Qalamkari)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Shemshad wood

19th centuryPersian

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Stamp with the Head of a Youth for Block Printing on Cotton (Qalamkari)

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Shemshad wood

19th centuryPersian

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Inkwell

Unknown Artist, late 12th century-early 13th century

leaded brass, incised and inlaid with silver and copper

12th-13th centuryPersian

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Pen box with scenes from Nizami's tale of Bahram Gur and the Seven Princesses

Muhammad Kazim ibn Najaf `Ali, 1878-1879

Watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard

19th centuryPersian

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