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Coronation of the Virgin, reliquary gable, French, Limoges, c. 1200-1220, copper with gilding and champleve enamel - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06814

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Clock, by John E. Ellicott, London, England, c. 1735, ebonized wood case, gold decoration, glass, brass - Portland Museum of Art - Portland, Maine - DSC04135

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Coastal Shipping by Pieter Cornelis Dommershuijzen, Dutch, 1876, oil on canvas - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08098

Caesar receiving the Head of Pompey, Italian, Castel Durante, 1536, majolica - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06555

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Charles R. Crane and Josephine Crane Bradley by Paul Troubetzkoy, 1912, cast bronze, figure 1 - Chazen Museum of Art - DSC02448

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Bust of Edward Souther Griffin by Walter Griffin, 1881, plaster and gold leaf - Portland Museum of Art - Portland, Maine - DSC03954

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Bowl with molded and carved design of lotus, Korea, Gangjin or Buan kilns, Goryeo period, 1100s AD, stoneware, celadon, glaze - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04946

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Bowl with floral design in underglaze red, China, Hongwu Period, Ming Dynasty, 1368-1398 - Hong Kong Museum of Art - DSC00703

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Bowl with incised design of floral spray, Korea, Gangjin kilns, Goryeo period, late 1000s AD, stoneware, celadon, glaze - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04928

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Bottle with design of phoenixes and peony vinescrolls, Korea, Gangjin kilns, Goryeo period, mid 12th century AD, stoneware, celadon glaze - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04906

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Bottle, Meissen manufactory, Germany, c. 1730, hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilt - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 20180922 150445

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Bottle with lid, China, Northern Song dynasty, 960-1127 AD, Longquan ware (porcelaneous stoneware) - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC05117

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Buffalo Bill's gauntlet, artist unknown, leather, shell, beads - Circus Museum - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00205

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Chairs and settee, Paris, c. 1710-1715 AD - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08352

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Ceres and Bacchus, Real Fabrica del Buen Retiro, Madrid, 1790-1795 AD - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08396

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Attendant, China, Han dynasty, 206 BC to 220 AD, painted earthenware - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08208

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Angel from the gable of a reliquary, 2 of 2, German, probably Constance, 1300s, copper with gilding and repousse - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06820

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Alabastron with dancing maenads, Sappho painter, Greek, Attic, c. 500-490 BC, white-ground technique on earthenware - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06527

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Hermitage en Dauphine platter, Enoch Wood & Sons, England, c. 1818, porcelain with blue and white transfer - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06582

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Jarlet with imperial dragons, China, Ming dynasty, Jiajing period, 1522-1566, porcelain - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00740

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Hu (jar), China, Han dynasty, 206 BC to 220 AD, painted earthenware - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08211

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Juno with Her Peacock by Antoine-Louis Barye, model c. 1840, cast after 1855, bronze - National Gallery of Art, Washington - DSC08726

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Kylix, Cypriot, Cypro-Archaic I, c. 750-600 BC, terracotta - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC07999

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Lippincott's, January, by Joseph J. Gould, Jr., 1896, lithograph - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07918

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Linen chest, Gustav Stickley, John Seidemann, United Crafts, Eastwood, New York, designed c. 1903, oak, iron - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC05192

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Large bowl with bird design, Spain, Manises, 16th century AD, Hispano-Moresque lusterware pottery - Matsuoka Museum of Art - Tokyo, Japan - DSC07351

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Maenads in a Wood, by Gustave Dore, 1879, plaster - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 20180922 150837

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River landscape, circle of Soga Shohaku, 1700s AD, folding screen adapted from sliding panels, ink on paper - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC05108

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Relief with Amorini and a Garland, Pakistan, probably Swat Valley, c. 1st-3rd century AD, schist - Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon - Eugene, Oregon - DSC09301

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Paperweight by Cristalleries de Saint-Louis, France, c. 1850, glass - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07860

Paperweight by the New England Class Company, East Cambridge MA, c. 1850, glass - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC08078

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Reed organ, Grand Salon model, by J. Estey Company, Brattleboro VT, c. 1878, walnut, rosewood - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 20180922 153540

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The fruit grower's guide : Vintage illustration of king of pippins apple

Antique plant Rewarewa drawn by Sarah Featon (1848–1927).

Antique plant Kowhai - Clianthus puniceus drawn by Sarah Featon (1848–1927).

Antique plant Miro - Kawaka drawn by Sarah Featon (1848–1927).

Illustration of horse race from Sporting Sketches (1817-1818) by Henry Alken (1784-1851).

Parrot (1596–1610) by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt.

Greek pattern from The Practical Decorator and Ornamentist (1892) by G.A Audsley and M.A. Audsley. Digitally enhanced from our own original first edition of the publication.

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Medieval pattern from The Practical Decorator and Ornamentist (1892) by G.A Audsley and M.A. Audsley. Digitally enhanced from our own original first edition of the publication.

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Cattleya granulosa var schofieldiana from Reichenbachia Orchids (1888-1894) illustrated by Frederick Sander (1847-1920).

Paradise crow, female from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et Des Rolliers (1806) by Jacques Barraband (1767-1809).

Baska Terrapin (Emys Baska) from Illustrations of Indian zoology (1830-1834) by Published John Edward Gray (1800-1875).

Vintage cherries illustration. Digitally enhanced illustration from U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.

Scabious-like cosmos from Edwards’s Botanical Register (1829—1847) by Sydenham Edwards, John Lindley, and James Ridgway.

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Iris Madonna from The genus Iris by William Rickatson Dykes (1877-1925). Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

Erica Glauca (Elegans) Image from The Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed by Francis Sansom.

Plums (Prunus Domestica) (1896) by Deborah Griscom Passmore.

Karnac (Karnak) illustration by David Roberts (1796–1864).

Obelisk of Heliopoli illustration by David Roberts (1796–1864).

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A vase with flowers by Johan Teyler (1648-1709).

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Vintage bunch of green grapes illustration.

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Striped bonito chromolithograph (1878) by Samuel Kilbourne.

Cassowary from Adventures of a Gold-Digger (1856) published by John Sherer.

Naked woman posing sensually, vintage erotic art. Studies of nudes standing (recto and verso) by Auguste Rodin. Original from Yale University Art Gallery. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Naked woman posing sensually, vintage erotic art. Standing Nude, seen from back by Auguste Rodin. Original from The Yale University Art Gallery. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Vintage peaches illustration.

Cassowary from Adventures of a Gold-Digger (1856) published by John Sherer.

Plantae Selectae: No. 11–Lily by Georg Dionysius Ehret.

Porcupine Diodon illustration from The Naturalist's Miscellany (1789-1813) by George Shaw (1751-1813)

Antique plant Tukautei drawn by Sarah Featon (1848–1927).

Scarlet Tulip (ca. 1772 –1793) by Giorgio Bonelli.

Antique plant Veronica 4 species drawn by Sarah Featon (1848–1927).

Antique plant drawn by Sarah Featon (1848–1927).

Blueberries (Vaccinium Corymbosum) (1940) by James Marion Shull.

Bird of Paradise on a tree branch vintage illustration

Antique plant Mangrove - Glasswort drawn by Sarah Featon (1848–1927).

Antique plant Divaricate Suttonia drawn by Sarah Featon (1848–1927).

Tree Mallow (ca. 1772 –1793) by Giorgio Bonelli.

The Dawn by John LaFarge, 1899, oil on canvas - Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University - DSC01985

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Oba, Benin City, Nigeria, 17th century, No. 1907.44.0383 - Etnografiska museet - Stockholm, Sweden - DSC01036

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Samurai armor for boy, No. 1935.50.4559 - Etnografiska museet - Stockholm, Sweden - DSC01151

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Portrait of Rubens, around 1860

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Various netsuke - Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium - DSC04345

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Bird haniwa - Linden-Museum - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC03478

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Model of Japanese house - Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium - DSC04360

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Bag, Native American, bark - Etnografiska museet - Stockholm, Sweden - DSC01218

Statue of Israel Putnam by John Quincy Adams Ward in Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT - January 2016

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Western Asiatic groom, China, Tang dynasty, 8th century AD, painted earthenware - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00677

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Nude male with spear, kantharos, Greek-Boetian, c. 430-420 BC, red-figure terracotta - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07655

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Moret, vu des champs, by Alfred Sisley, 1886, oil on canvas - Matsuoka Museum of Art - Tokyo, Japan - DSC07420

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Untitled, by Asher Brown Durand, 1853, oil on canvas - Portland Museum of Art - Portland, Maine - DSC04205

Plate, Kashan, Iran, Saljuq period, early 13th century AD, stone-paste painted in reverse luster over glaze - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04623

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Plate from a service for Empress Elizabeth, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, Russia, Saint Petersburg, 1755-1760, porcelain, 65.47 - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC07679

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Pitcher, Teruel, Spain, late 18th century AD, ceramic - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08206

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Pair of George III sauce tureens with covers, 1 of 2, Paul Storr, London, 1805-1806, silver - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08833

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Parrot, Delft, Netherlands, c. 1730-1735, tin-glazed earthenware, polychrome enamels - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 20180922 150225

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Our Lady of Copacabana, artist unknown, Bolivia, 18th century, oil on incised copper plate - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC08150

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Pazal, son of Zabda, son of Zabda Pazal, funerary portrait, Palmyra, Syria, c. 200 AD, limestone - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08978

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Nydia, the blind flower girl of Pompeii, by Randolph Rogers, original model 1855, marble - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06909

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Young Woman in a White Dress, attributed to Jacopo da Pontormo, c. 1529, oil on wood panel - University of Arizona Museum of Art - University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ - DSC08095

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House dish in the form of a beaver, Kwakwaka'wakw, Smith Inlet, BC, c. 1872, red cedar, paint - Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia - DSC08758

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Plate with bird, Teruel, Spain, 18th century AD, ceramic - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08213

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Coffee pot, Whieldon type, Stanfordshire, England, c. 1750, lead-glazed earthenware and polychrome running glazes - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06666

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Dish, Kutani ware, Iidaya (Aka-e) style - Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Traditional Arts and Crafts - Kanazawa, Japan - DSC09851

Cabinet chair, probably Spain, early 19th century - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08314

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Nature spirits (asie usu), 1 of 2, Baule peoples, Cote d'Ivoire, 1800s, wood - Fowler Museum - University of California, Los Angeles - DSC02451

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Meditating Bodhisattva, Longmen Cave Complex, China, Henan Province, Northern Wei dynasty, c. 520s AD, limestone - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08483

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Mirror, China, Tang dynasty, 618-907 AD, bronze with silver overlay - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08224

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