November 30, 2024 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Trophy Skull
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

 
 
 
November 29, 2024 | Editorial Team

Detail of Sarong, 1933. Cotton (drawn batik), 105.5 × 101.5. Signed: Nj: Oeij Kok Sing. Stamped: Oeij Kok Sing:/ 15 Maart. 33. 2024-00361. Lee gift.

 
 
November 27, 2024 | Steven G. Alpert
 

War Canoe Prow Ornament
© Borneo Cultures Museum

 
 
November 22, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Jaap Kunst demonstrates a conch shell | 1940-1960
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

 
 
 
November 19, 2024 | Editorial Team

Portrait of King Seuthes III, 310 – 300 BCE
Found in the Golyama Kosmatka burial mound, near Shipka, Bulgaria
Bronze, with copper, alabaster, and glass for the eyes
Object: 32 × 28 × 27.9 cm
National Archaeological Institute with Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
Photo: Todor Dimitrov
VEX.2024.2.159

 
 
November 15, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Éléments d’ornementation de l’Homme d’or
Découverts à Yssk (région d’Almaty), 4e-3e siècle avant J.-C, or Musée national de la République du Kazakhstan

 
 
October 31, 2024 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Spirit Boards
Oc1936,0720.8 | Oc1914,0418.41 | Oc1936,0720.11
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
October 28, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Mahakala, Protector of the Tent
ca. 1500
Central Tibet
Distemper on cloth
Zimmerman Family Collection, Gift of the Zimmerman Family, 2012
2012.444.4
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
October 24, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Tomb Guardians 鎮墓獸
Early 700s
China, probably Shaanxi province, Xi'an, Tang dynasty (618-907)
Glazed earthenware, sancai (three-color) ware
Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange)
2000.118
© The Cleveland Museum of Art

 
 
October 22, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Human Head with Canine Muzzle
Mexico, Veracruz, Veracruz, 600–900 CE
Ceramic, pigment
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost (M.2010.115.142)
© LACMA

 
 
October 18, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

The Giant Zumurrud Shah flees with his army by flying away on urns sent by sorcerers, Folio from the Hamza-Nama c. 1562-1577. Opaque water colour and gold on cotton backed with paper. MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Photo © MAK / Georg Mayer

 
 
October 16, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Sarong, 1920s
Nyonya Oeij Soen King
Cotton (drawn batik)
Gift of Ika, Melia, and Inge Hendromartono
2017-00324
© Peranakan Museum

 
 
September 29, 2024 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Headhunter’s Jacket | Baju Kirai
© Dallas Museum of Art

 
 
September 27, 2024 | Matthew Isaac Cohen
 

Puppet (Wayang Klitik) of Barongan
The Dr. Walter Angst and Sir Henry Angest Collection
© Yale University Art Gallery