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Decorative Metal Artifacts

An assortment of elaborately designed metal artifacts such as mirrors, clasps, and plates, featuring intricate patterns and historical significance.

Rod. "Medal matrix. The Orleans family". Metal, steel, 19th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 57559-6 Steel, Averse, Bourbon, Orleans family, matrix, medal, metal, numismatics, profile, portrait, queen, king France, 19th century
Rod. "Medal matrix. The Orleans family". Metal, steel, 19th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 57559-6 Steel, Averse, Bourbon, Orleans family, matrix, medal, metal, numismatics, profile, portrait, queen, king France, 19th century
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Gold pectoral, with an animal figure, from the Basova burial mound in Duvanlj, Bulgaria. Goldsmith art. Thracian Civilization, 5th Century BC.Pectoral Cross, 1600s. Byzantium, Russia, Byzantine period, 17th century. Walrus ivory, wood, partially gilt silver and pearls; overall: 10.5 x 5 x 1.7 cm (4 1/8 x 1 15/16 x 11/16 in.).Quatrilobed Plaque, c. 1300-1310. Probably by Guillaume Julien (French). Gold, translucent enamel; overall: 4.8 x 4.8 cm (1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.).Stove plate with four times Johannes de Boper, Anonymous, 1475 - 1525 Stove plate of cast iron, on which next to each other four times John the Baptist is depicted on a console in a gothic niche with mesh work at the top. Germany iron (metal) casting Stove plate of cast iron, on which next to each other four times John the Baptist is depicted on a console in a gothic niche with mesh work at the top. Germany iron (metal) castingTerracotta kylix (drinking cup). Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: H. 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)width with handles 15 3/8 (39.1 cm)diameter 12 1/16 in. (30.7 cm). Date: ca. 480 B.C..Interior and exterior, Theseus in Poseidon's undersea palace and his arrival in AthensThe subject of the decoration is elucidated in a poem by Bacchylides, active in the fifth century B.C. On the interior and one side of the exterior, Theseus, who is bound for Crete to kill the Minotaur, takes leave of his father and stepmother, Poseidon and Amphitrite. On the other side, the victorious Theseus is welcomed back to Athens by Athena. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Iron Age, Bronze double spiral fibula, From Campania Region, ItalyBracelet from the royal tombs of Tanis, Late PeriodCooking etc. from Whalevistraan, c. 1750 - c. 1850 wood (plant material)Buckles and buckle plaques (6th-7th c.). Visigothic art. Jewelry. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia. Proc: SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. SEGOVIA. SepÏlveda. DuratÑn. Necropolis.Funeral furniture: plastic vase in the shape of a dolphin; ossicle; ring; Box pendant. Silver metal; gold and garnet; gold. Héllenistic period, around 200 BC. AD Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 59721-11 Antiquity Greco-Romaine, silver, ancient art, funeral bagciérite, belief, dolphin, hellenistic time, iiieme IIIe III 3e 3e 3rd century AV.J-C., Precious metal, funerary furniture, gold, bone, pendant, semi-pronouous stone, vase Ancient, animalMedal with an emblem and the names of Swedish kings. Design of a round of medal with, in six concentric circles, the names of Swedish kings and their government years, starting at King Birger I and ending at King Charles XII. In the middle of the medal an emblem with a lion in a mountain landscape and the motto: "per amica silentia lunae".Roundel. Culture: British. Dimensions: 10 1/4 in. × 5/16 in. (26 × 0.8 cm). Date: ca. 1360-77. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Silversmith's Art, France 19th century. Silver snuffbox, decorated with niello, depicting a rustic party, with handmade bottom with incised meanders.Kanazawa, Nomura Samurai House, Door DetailAnonymous, in the golden sun (i). Taught. 126. Faubourg Saint-Antoine (), 12th arrondissement, Paris (dummy title), 1700. Stretched, pushed and gilded iron. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.Fragment of a terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) ca. 450 B.C. Attributed to the Chicago Painter Head and shoulders of a woman to left.. Fragment of a terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) 250557 : Attributed to the Chicago Painter, Fragment of a terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), ca. 450 B.C., Terracotta, H. 4 5/16 in. (11 cm) length 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1917 (17.230.23)Commemorative nappy - Queen Victoria Jubilee patternAncient metal pins with openwork heads from the Lorestan Province, Western Iran. Dated 9th Century BCbudapest city hungary buda museum Matthias Corvinus seal wax replica exhibitAntique shields from Ottoman times in the viewThailand / China: Hand carved wooden Daoist ritual chops or stamps used by Yao shaman. The Yao nationality (its majority branch is known as Mien) is a government classification for various minorities in China. They form one of the 55 ethnic minority groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, where they reside in the mountainous terrain of the southwest and south. They also form one of the 54 ethnic groups officially recognized by Vietnam. In the last census, they numbered 2,637,421 in China, and roughly 470,000 in Vietnam. In Thailand they number 40,000 and in Laos 20,000.