Enameled Gold Earring or Pendant with Female Portrait

Hair Necklace

Mona Hatoum

Armlet in Gold with Large Gemstones

Armlet with pendant coins and blue and orange beads

Floral Belt Ornament

Wine Strainer

Basin Handle with Palmette-Shaped Attachment Plate

Branch of Plum Blossoms -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu)

Hu Zhengyan 胡正言

Five Beads on a Cord

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 17, The Picture Contest (Eawase)

Samuel C. Bruce

Unidentified Artist Samuel C. Bruce

Miniature Bow (Part of a Buddhist Monk's Kit of 9 Implements)

Sir Lance-a-lot

Lyonel Feininger

Votive Figurine of a Woman

Torque with Coiled Strands and Bosses

Openwork Belt Ornament

Fifty Nō Plays, Illustrated (Yōkyoku gojū-ban) in 10 Volumes

Tosa Mitsuoki 土佐光起

Untitled (nude)

Lucien Clergue

The Timid Pirate

Lyonel Feininger

Bracelet or "Athlete's Ring"

Untitled [Woman Walking in Wind]

Lyonel Feininger

Cricket

Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill Wiener Werkstätte

Votive Figurine of a Warrior

Untitled (nude)

Lucien Clergue

Relic grains (shari)

Cord with Tassels

Cross-Shaped Pendant

New York Collection for Stockholm

Lee Bontecou

Openwork Belt Ornament

Jade Openwork Plaque of Intertwined Animals and Birds

Scarab set in ring with granulation

Basin Handle with Lion Skin Attachment

Goojez Bashi, Chief of the Dwarfs

Satsuma no Kami Tadanori (Taira no Tadanori), from the series Twenty-Four Generals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika nijūshishō)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Wrestling Umpire Kimura Shōtarō

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

Coin of Vibo Valentia (Hipponium)

Cord with Tassels

Iron Nail (said to be from the Heraion)

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 1, The Paulownia Pavilion (Kiritsubo)

Lacquered Box with Chess Pieces

Unknown Artist

Study of the Borghese Gladiator as a Skeleton

Philibert d'Amiens de Ranchicourt

Communism Comes to the Coast

Michael Sorkin

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 28, The Typhoon (Nowaki)

Baren (used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to transfer pigment)

Cord with Tassels

Hungarian Linen-Merchant

Johann Adam Klein

Small Belt Ornament

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 48, Bracken Shoots (Sawarabi)

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 33, New Wisteria Leaves (Fuji no Uraba)

Atomic Bomb Explosion

Harold Edgerton

Atomic Bomb Explosion

Harold Edgerton

Court Ladies with Flower Cart, with poems by Ren'unsha, Kikkasha Suyoshi (Shukei), Sashukusha [?], Seiseisha Misame and Teikunsha

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Plum Branch

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Miniature Headed, Single-Prong Vajra (Part of a Buddhist Monk's Kit of 9 Implements)

Sherd: Fragment of the Circular Footring and Base of a Vessel

The "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari) in 54 Volumes

Door God: General Yuchi Gong (Hu Jingde)

One of two silver perfume bottles

Unknown Artist

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 19, Wisps of Cloud (Usugumo)

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 39, Evening Mist (Yūgiri)

Grapes and Leaves

Stag Galvanism

Joseph Beuys Edition Staeck, Heidelberg

Bracelet

Miniature finial in the shape of a standing man

Lock (Doorknocker?) in the Form of a Lion

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 51, A Drifting Boat (Ukifune)

Backing paper from the "Tale of Genji" Album (Genji monogatari gajō): Chapter 26, The Pink (Tokonatsu)

Tea Caddy

Cornelius Bland

Calabash-Shaped Bottle with Butterfly Decoration

Reliquary

Animal-Headed Ewer

Untitled [Man Digging]

Lyonel Feininger

Cantonese Painting of an Unidentified, Long and Mottled Fish

Intaglio Gem in Form of Scarab, with Canopic Jar Facing Left

Wehrmacht

Unidentified Artist

Ligula

[Flowers]

Lyonel Feininger

Balance

Richard Serra

Stater of Elis

Cup with Kakiemon Decoration

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Seal in Scarab Form, with Youth Putting on a Sandal

"Objects are Beautiful" when and because they express something

Mary Lowber Tiers

Young Soybeans

Kawasaki Shōko