Cover of "Hannibal's March over the Alps"

Alfred Rethel

Coin of Leo VI

Leo VI

Coin of Michael III

Michael III

Coin of Theophilus

Theophilus

Coin of Leo V

Leo V

Coin of Leo VI

Leo VI

Barbershop sign, Lancaster, Ohio

Ben Shahn

Housing Development, Berlin-Siemensstadt, 1929-1930: Plan and west and east elevations, 1:50

Walter Gropius

Housing Development, Karlsruhe-Dammerstock, 1928-1929: Row houses: plans, elevations, sections, 1:100

Walter Gropius

Untitled (Kyoto, Japan)

Ben Shahn

Untitled (The Mecca, Chicago, Illinois)

Ben Shahn

Untitled (prenatal clinic, New York City)

Ben Shahn

Untitled (Bessemer City, North Carolina)

Ben Shahn

Untitled (Thomasville, North Carolina)

Ben Shahn

Untitled (North Carolina)

Ben Shahn

Weimar-era currency: five-hundred million mark bank note

Weimar-era currency: five-million mark bank note

Weimar-era currency: Fifty-million mark bank note

Untitled (woman wearing crown standing before woman in robes during Masonic ceremony)

Martin Schweig

Hemispherical Bell

The Ass

Claude Gillot

Annual Events in the Form of a Poetry Contest (Nenjū gyōji uta-awase) in Five Volumes

Toy Teabowl and Saucer

Unidentified Artist

Toy Teabowl and Saucer

Unidentified Artist

Shaft-Hole Axe with Boar's Head

Toy Teabowl and Saucer

Unidentified Artist

Euterpe, from the series "The Nine Muses"

Peter Flötner

Circular "Shenshou" (Deity and Beast) Mirror with Relief Decoration of the Daoist Deities Xiwangmu and Dongwanggong against a Pattern of Rolling Waves, All within a Border of Alternating Semicircles and Faux Seal Impressions

Pair of Candlesticks

Maker's mark HW in escutcheon-shaped punch, with two pellets above and escallop below

'Gu' Ritual Wine Vessel with 'Taotie' and Stylized Dragon Decor

Political rally -- Chicago

Robert Frank

Perfume Burner

Unidentified Artist

Circular Mirror with Decoration of the Animals of the Four Quadrants, the Eight Trigrams, and Flying Apsarases

Untitled (portrait of large family)

Harry Annas

Toy Teabowl and Saucer

Unidentified Artist

One of a Pair of Salt Cellars

Edgar M. Eoff

Vajra (Ritual Implement)

Ciborium

Thomas Bogaert

[Pen and charcoal drawing by Lyonel Feininger, 1954]

Lyonel Feininger

'Gui' Ritual Food Vessel with Attached Stand, Bovine-Head Handles, and with Confronting-Dragon Decor

Circular Mirror with Decoration of Four Fantastic, Long-Tailed Creatures against a Patterned Ground

Argyle

Unidentified Artist

Oval Lock With Dotted Punched Decoration

Unknown Artist

Photographs of Dessau Bauhaus

Unidentified Artist

[Itinerant musician in Deep, Baltic Coast]

Lyonel Feininger

Tetradrachm of Ptolemy II

Ptolemy II Philadelphos

Coin of the Province of Macedonia under Antoninus Pius

Antoninus Pius

Bell

James Gould

Jade Slit Disk (Jue)

Amulet with Inscription

Ritual Bell (Bo zhong) with Decorative Panels of Interlaced Dragons, Bosses in the Form of Coiled Dragons, and Handle in the Form of Addorsed Felines

Ducat of Cristoforo Moro I, Doge of Venice, Mounted

Cristoforo Moro I

'Alam (finial ornament) for a Battle Standard. Inscribed in Arabic, "There is no God but God".

Stater of Lydia, time of Croesus

Stater of the Nervii, Belgica

The Nervii

Specimen Token

Unidentified Artist

Circular Double-Tier Mirror or Plaque with Decoration of Four Interlaced Snake-Dragons around a Four-Petalled Flower and with Four Loop-Handles

Crossed Vajras (Katsuma vajra)

Stater of the East Celts (known as Regenbogenschüsselchen)

East Celts

Sistrum Handle with the Head of Hathor

Seated Sitatara (The White Tara)

Tetradrachm of Ptolemy II

Ptolemy II Philadelphos

Kneeling Apsaras Playing a Drum

Circular Double-Tier Mirror with Openwork Decoration of Six Intertwined Dragons

Inkwell

Unknown Artist

[Watercolor by Lyonel Feininger]

Lyonel Feininger

Office and Factory Buildings, Cali, Colombia, 1945: Elevations (1/16" = 1'-0")

M.I. Walter Gropius

[Gravestone, New England]

Lyonel Feininger

Bowl

Unknown Artist

Stater of Philip III of Macedonia, 'Babylon'

Philip III of Macedonia

Conical Bowl with Foliate Rim and Decoration of Rhinoceros, Moon, and Stylized Cloud

Reliquary Cross

Unidentified Artist

The Circus of Nero

Giacomo Lauro

Illustrated Sutra

Large Pedestal Bowl with Domed Cover and Dangles, the Very Short Base with Openwork Decoration, the Cover with Strapwork-and-Boss Decoration and with a Knob in the Form of a Wide-Mouthed Bowl with Flaring Lip