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Elegant decorative items including jade sheaths and metal mounts, showcasing intricate designs and craftsmanship from various cultures.

Top light with cut monogram amidst vines with leaves, in new frame, cutting window surface light wood carving sculpture visual material wood paint, d 5.0
Top light with cut monogram amidst vines with leaves, in new frame, cutting window surface light wood carving sculpture visual material wood paint, d 5.0
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High-Backed Chair 15th century French or South Netherlandish. High-Backed Chair. French or South Netherlandish. 15th century. Oak. Woodwork-FurnitureSubway Sign, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USAInn sign GREIFEN (griffon) in Dinkelsbuehl, Central Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, EuropeThumb piano - Sansa from Old Calabar, Nigeria. Dated 20th CenturyPlaque from a Reliquary Shrine 1160-80 German Among the most splendid objects in the great churches of Cologne are large architectural shrines containing relics associated with local saints. These ambitious goldsmiths works are among the greatest artistic achievements of their time. Refined decorative fragments like the small rectangular plaques shown here are often all that remain of these monumental objects, as many were dismantled or even destroyed following the secularization of church property in this region in the first decade of the nineteenth century. During later efforts to restore shrines, some fragments were replaced and the originals sold to collectors and museums.. Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine 464194 German, Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine, 1160?80, Champlev? enamel, copper alloy, gilt, Overall: 3 3/8 x 1 1/8 x 1/8 in. (8.6 x 2.9 x 0.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.2136)Treasure of Guarrazar, Middle Ages, late classical Germanic ornament, Monumentes de EspazaMedallion (Egypt); warp: s-spun linen. wefts; s-spun linen, s-spun wool; Warp x Weft: 59.1 x 33.3 cm (23 1/4 x 13 1/8 in.)Rusty grave fences, Kirchof 1 of the Evangelische Georgen-Parochialgemeinde, Greisfswalder Strasse, Berlin, Germany, EuropeThe local museum in Skogar. Traditional Icelandic carved bed-boards. Europe, northern Europe, Scandinavia, Iceland.Porringer. Maker: Joseph Richardson, Sr., American, 1711-1784Historical coat of arms disc of Lippstadt, Museum der Grafschaft Mark, Altena Castle, Altena, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe