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'tattooed pig' by wim delvoye, 1996 in animal: exposition du 24 septembre 1999 au 16 janvier 2000 - musée bourdelle (1999)
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A fantastic Hooded Katar,
OaL: 26.8 in/68 cm
India, ca. 1900, from Czerny's International Auction House.
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EMILE GALLE
VASE, ca. 1900.
Yellow glass with black overlay and etching, decorated with thistles.
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Foxy Cradle
The place is cold and empty. We lie deep down into the ground. I can hear death working gradually around us. Milions of other bodies which died solitarily. Alone. We clasp each other even stronger. The cradle must not be stopped.
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Helmet. 17th–18th century. Credit line: Gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, 1916 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/33529
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Silver hair-ornament from Oman, 1950s
Silver heart-shaped hair ornament (halqa) with crescent danglers and jingling silver chains. The cut-out center forms a palm tree with chased decoration, set with a red glass seal inscribed with the name Muhammad, referring to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
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Ruta Muraria cum Musco Crustaceo in Cranio Humano, “Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum”, 1670.
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A GROUP OF THREE DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE BIRDCAGES AND A POLYCHROME BIRDCAGE 19TH CENTURY
earthenware, metal
height of tallest 30 in.
76 cm
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JEAN DUNAND (1877-1942)
A LACQUERED AND SILVER LEAF WOOD FOUR-PANEL SCREEN, CIRCA 1925
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Vintage Burlesque. 1890s.
Photographs by Charles H. McCaghy.
MORE.
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