Left: Dish with a blue saz leaf
Turkey, Iznik, ca. 1580
Ceramic with painted underglaze
Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, LAD 2012.045
Photo: © Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi / Photo: Ismail Noor/Seeing Things
Right: Vanity case with decoration inspired by Iznik ceramics
Cartier Paris, 1927
Gold, platinum, enamel, sapphires, emeralds, topazes, coral, moonstones, diamonds
Cartier Collection, VC 41 A 27
Nils Herrmann, Cartier Collection
Photo: © Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi / Photo: Ismail Noor/Seeing Things
A floral fantasy of animals and birds (Waq-waq), early 1600s. Mughal India. Gum tempera and gold on paper; page: 37.6 x 26.6 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.319
Wooden Figure of the Mythical 'Kalipau' Creature | Henta-koi
© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Left: Ceremonial Bowl
© Borneo Cultures Museum
Top: Olmec Mask
© Dallas Museum of Art
Bottom: Female Dugong Charm Figure | Dangal
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Right: Uli Figure
© Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Unknown painter (French School), Enjoying Coffee, Turkey, first half of the 18th century, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's Orientalist Painting Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, photo © Pera Museum, Istanbul
Jarasandha besieges Mathura
Folio 43 from a Bhagavata Purana series (BhP 10.50), India, Bundelkhand, Datia, ca. 1635–50, gift of Horst Metzger, Museum Rietberg, Zurich (RVI 1923)
Tenaktak Canoes
Volume 10. The Kwakiutl
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1914.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries
Paul Gauguin. Pobre Pescador (Poor Fisherman). 1896. Oil on canvas. 75 x 65 cm Gift of Henrik Spitzman-Jordan, Ricardo Jafet and João di Pietro. Collection of Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand. Image courtesy of Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand; photo by Eduardo Ortega
Kenyah Ceremonial Jacket
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands
Feathered Image | Ki’i Hulu Manu
Believed to represent Kuka’ilimoku
Wicker, feathers, mother-of-pearl, dog teeth, Hawaii,
h. 46.5 cm, w. 16 cm, d. 7.5 cm (neck), Inv. Oz 254
Cook-Forster Collection
© Georg-August University of Göttingen