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Terracotta with gilding over gesso
17th centuryItalianLead-glazed ware: Molded, brick red earthenware with lead-fluxed, caramel brown glaze, the detachable, unglazed tail and saddle molded in brick red earthenware, the detachable, unglazed ears molded in gray earthenware, the unglazed elements displaying traces of cold-painted pigments. Probably from the Chengdu region of Sichuan province.
2nd century CEChineseLeaded bronze on stone base
2nd-3rd century CERomanBronze
7th century BCEGreekTerracotta
17th centuryItalianDark gray schist
2nd century CEGandharanCopper alloy
16th centuryEdoLeaded bronze
1st century BCE-2nd century CEGraeco-RomanJapanese cypress (hinoki); assembled woodblock construction with polychromy and rock-crystal inlaid eyes
13th centuryJapaneseLeaded bronze, gold-alloy inlay around eye
7th-6th century BCEEgyptianGilt bronze; Gandhara type
3rd-4th century CEChineseUnfired clay mixed with fibers and straw modeled over wooden armature; with polychromy and gilding
7th centuryChinesePentelic marble with modern restorations
2nd century CERomanTerracotta, traces of paint
3rd century BCEGreekTerracotta, traces of gilding
3rd century BCEGreekTerracotta, traces of paint
1st century BCE-1st century CEGreekOff-white earthenware with cold-painted pigments over white slip (or white gesso?) ground in localized areas
8th centuryChineseLead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with partially degraded, lead-fluxed, emerald-green glaze
1st-2nd century CEChineseOff-white earthenware with cold-painted pigments over white slip (or white gesso?) ground in localized areas
8th centuryChineseBronze
20th centuryFrench