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Photographs

Untitled (self-portrait in library)

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Probably autumn 1895

Gelatin silver print

19th centuryFrench

Photographs

Submerged Gas Pumps, Salton Sea

Richard Misrach, 1983

20th centuryAmerican

Sculpture

Female Votive Statuette

Unknown Artist, late 5th-2nd century BCE

Bronze

5th-2nd century BCEIberian

Sculpture

Proto-Elamite Statuette of a Monkey

Unknown Artist, c. 3000 BCE

Gypsum

4th millennium BCEIranian

Prints

Monte Carlo Bond

Marcel Duchamp, 1938

Offset lithograph on white wove paper

20th centuryFrench

Sculpture

Buddha Standing on an Octagonal, Double-Lotus Base with His Right Hand Raised in the Abhaya-mudra and His Left Hand Lowered in the Varada-mudra, Probably the Buddha Shakyamuni (Sŏk'kamoni Yŏrae)

Unknown Artist, 8th-9th century

Gilt bronze

8th-9th centuryKorean

Coins

Solidus of Michael III and Theodora, Constantinople

Michael III, 843 (?) -856 CE

Gold

9th centuryByzantine

Boxes

Hiranatsume Spring and Autumn Tea Caddy with Decoration of Cherry Blossoms and Maple Leaves

Unknown Artist, 1920-1930

Takamakie lacquer, nashiji gold flakes, and kirigane gold foil on a roiro black lacquer ground, the lower sides with nashiji gold flakes and bokashi kinpun gold dust, the inside and the bottom with dense nashiji gold flakes

20th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Stele with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha

Unknown Artist, early 13th century

Yellowish-beige pyrophyllite

13th centuryBurmese

Textile Arts

Tunic Ornament: Two Hunters Battling Lions

Unknown Artist, 5th-6th century

Wool and linen

5th-6th centuryByzantine

Sculpture

Zōchōten (Virūdhaka), Guardian King of the South: One of the Shitennō (Devarājas) or Four Heavenly Guardian Kings

Unknown Artist, Nambokuchō to Muromachi period, 14th-15th century

Wood, multiple-woodblock construction; with polychromy and gilding

14th-15th centuryJapanese

Vessels

Bowl with Rooster and Fish

Unknown Artist, 10th century

Buff-colored earthenware painted with luster (silver and copper) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin

10th century

Prints

Snuffing Out Boney!

George Cruikshank, May 1, 1814

Hand-colored etching

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Study for a Frieze with Siren and Acanthus

Tullio Lombardo, c. 1481-1489

Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper, scored for transfer

15th centuryItalian

Drawings

Head of a Smiling Youth with Curly Hair Facing One Quarter Left

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi, 15th-16th century

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper

15th-16th centuryItalian

Artists' Tools

Pen Box with Flowers, Birds, and Portraits

Haydar 'Ali, 1873-1874

Opaque and semi-opaque watercolor on prepared pasteboard under shellac varnish

Knotted thread, tape measures, eyelets

20th centuryAmerican

Stained Glass

When the Morning Stars Sang Together and All the Sons of God Shouted for Joy

John La Farge, c. 1884-1885

Pot metal, opalescent, and uncolored glass with vitreous paint

19th centuryAmerican

Photographs

Detroit (Ragsdale Beauty Shop)

William Henry Fox Talbot, c. 1844

Salted paper print on wove paper from calotype negative

19th centuryBritish

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