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Italian stiletto, circa 1640

from Czerny's International Auction House

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Huge tile mosaic made in Tusculum, 3rd century AD.

Vatican Museum

Photo courtesy Kathleen Phipps

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Ancient Greek mirror, bronze, said to be from an Etruscan tomb, 465-450 BC. 

Photo taken by Daderot at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

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Model of a Multi-Storied Tower, Chinese, 1st century. Earthenware with unfired pigments.

Courtesy Alain Truong

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Portable prayer wheel decorated with silver, jade, rubies, turquoise, and other semi-precious stones, Mongolia or Tibet, 17th-18th century

from The Walters Art Museum

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Bronze statue fragment uncovered near Geneva, Switzerland.

Roman, 1st century AD

from The Geneva Museum of Art and History

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wall tile with lotus flower, iran c. 1300-50.

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Rapier crafted in Solingen, Germany, late 16th century

from The Royal Armouries Collections

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the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov.

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Reliquary of St. Sebastian, crafted in Augsburg, Germany, in 1497

from The Victoria & Albert Museum

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Steel and silver axe head, Scandinavian, 11th-12th Century

From the Met Museum

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Undine (sculpture), 1904 - 1988.

by Isamu Noguchi.

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House of Paquius Proculus (2nd century BC) consists of 3 levels. In the hall the famous mosaic of the dog tied with a chain is preserved. The pavement of the atrium, with geometric and animal motifs of all kinds, is one of the largest and best preserved in Pompeii.

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Kālī ~ Udaipur School, 19th Century.