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Ivory salt cellar with boat
This salt cellar is made of ivory and shows Europeans with l…
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Ivory tusks carved with figures and cartoons
From the early nineteenth century, Kongo carvers based aroun…
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Hunting helmet
The helmet is made of painted bentwood, decorated with sea-l…
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Ivory figure of a rakan
The rakan (Sanskrit: arhats , 'enlightened beings'), were t…
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Ivory netsuke: foxes
The fox has always played a large part in Japanese mythology…
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Ivory netsuke, Kanyu
Chinese legend provided endless material for Japanese artist…
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Ivory netsuke of a mythical beast
The skill and imagination of the best of the early netsuke c…
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Netsuke, sennin
Sennin were immortals from Chinese legend. They are often th…
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Shibata Zeshin, Eagle in the Snow, a hanging scroll painting
The eagle had succeeded in catching what looks like a fox, b…
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Wood and ivory chest
From the sixteenth century Europeans began to visit the coun…
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Wood and ivory netsuke, palaces in a clam, carved by Kagetoshi
The illusion of palaces in the bubbles of the clam's breath …
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Ivory figure of a hunchback
This skilful ivory carving shows the sad and huddled figure …
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Ivory game box
Ivory carving flourished in Cyprus in the twelfth century BC…
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Ivory inset from a couch-end ornament in the form of a satyr's head
Couches made of wood and bronze were often decorated with a …
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Ivory cosmetic box in the shape of a duck
Toilet or cosmetic boxes of this sort were extremely popular…
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Ivory figurine
This beautiful figurine of a young Hittite girl is made of i…
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Ivory hand
This hand, which is almost three-quarters life-size, may hav…
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Diptych Dial
Diptych dials are portable instruments, usually made from iv…
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Ivory figure beads
Among a number of beads that were made by perforating animal…
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Flint knife with an ivory handle
The flint knives of the late Predynastic period were sometim…
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Ivory furniture leg
Ivory was used to make figurines, amulets and other types of…
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Senet game
Board games were very popular among all levels of society, e…
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High-backed chair, kiti cha enzi
This kita cha enzi (literally 'Chair of Power') represents t…
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Ivory breastplate (civaconovono)
A breastplate of this style, known in Fijian as civaconovono…
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Ivory salt cellar
Portuguese traders arrived on the west coast of Africa durin…
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Three ivory harpoons
The smaller harpoon head in the centre would have been used …
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Wood and ivory armlets
Elegant wood and ivory armlets were worn by Maasai men on th…
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Hanabusa Itcho, Xiwangmu, Butterflies around Bamboo and Chrysanthemums and Butterfly over Cotton Roses, a triptych of ha
Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, approaches through t…
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Hara Zaichu, Tiger, a hanging scroll painting
A tiger stands tensed on a steeply sloping mountainside. The…
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Ivory bodhisattva with attendants in a wooden shrine
Ivory is a material commonly associated with the Indian worl…
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Ivory figure of Vishnu on a naga throne
Standing beneath a decorative arch with a kirttimukha (monst…
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Ivory netsuke: a rat, a kirin and a bird's claw
The tiny sleeping rat, with its perfectly carved feet was pr…
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Ivory netsuke depicting Handaka Sonja
Handaka Sonja was one of the sixteen special disciples of th…
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Ivory relief of Rama and Lakshmana
This small ivory relief depicts the heroes of the Hindu epic…
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Ivory snuff bottle, a foshou citrus fruit
The Chinese have used ivory since the Shang dynasty (about 1…
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Ivory snuff equipment
Snuff is powdered tobacco, flavoured with various herbs and …
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Ivory statue of a falconer
After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, many changes occurred w…
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Kano Yoboku Tsunenobu, Hotei / Pheasant / Cock and Hen, a triptych of hanging scroll paintings
The subjects of these scrolls are all auspicious. In the cen…
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Netsuke, boar's tusk with a crab, carved by Bokugyuken Toshiharu
This netsuke by Bokugyūken Toshiharu shows the influenc…
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Netsuke, shishi on a seal base
The shishi or 'lion dog' was a mythical leonine creature ori…
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Purse and netsuke
This style of purse, as well as pressed metal fittings like …
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Shibata Zeshin, Kamo Festival, a hanging scroll painting
An ox has been untethered from the cart it was drawing as pa…
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Wood and ivory netsuke: Dojoji, carved by Konan Minko
Dōjōji , is a Nō drama which tells of the pas…
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Wood and ivory netsuke, The Dream of Rosei, carved by Kagetoshi
Chao Lu Sheng (Japanese: Rōsei) was a character of Chin…
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Portable ivory balance with brass pan and weight
There was no official silver coinage in China until 1890. Be…
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Bone spectacle fibula (brooch)
Votive offerings have been found in the area of the foundati…
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Ivory comb of Modestina
This double-sided comb probably came from a woman's grave. T…
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Ivory cosmetic box
Ivory cosmetic boxes from the Late Bronze Age (about 1650-10…
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Ivory disc engraved with a bull
The small number of ivories from the Late Bronze Age town of…
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Ivory mirror handle
This beautifully carved and decorated handle must originally…
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Ivory plaque showing Aristaios
Aristaios was a minor Greek deity particularly connected wit…
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Ivory chess pieces
Chess was extremely popular from the earliest Islamic period…
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Ivory cosmetic box in the shape of a fish
This ivory fish-shaped cosmetic box was found inside a bronz…
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Ivory head of a lion
This ivory lion's head probably comes from a piece of furnit…
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Ivory plaque depicting a winged sphinx
The carved ivories from Nimrud (9th-8th century BC) are reco…
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Carved ivory bust of Sir Isaac Newton by David Le Marchand
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the renowned mathematician and…
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Carved ivory leaf from a diptych
This splendid leaf is one of the last great commissions of p…
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Ivory diptych with the Annunciation and the Crucifixion
This diptych is carved with two Biblical scenes. The left wi…
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Ivory mirror back with hawking scene
Ivory mirror cases were constructed in a way similar to the …
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Ivory panel showing an archangel
This exceptionally beautiful leaf is the largest surviving B…
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Tau cross head
This cross head in the shape of a 'T' (the Greek letter 'tau…
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Gladiator figurine of bone or ivory
This figurine depicts a gladiator of the heavily-armed murmi…
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Ebony spoon in the shape of a stylized bouquet
A range of extremely attractive implements that resemble spo…
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Ivory gaming piece in the shape of a lion
Board games were a very popular pastime in ancient Egypt. Th…
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Ivory headrest
Deir el-Bersha is one of the major provincial cemeteries kno…
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Ivory label for King Den's sandals
Labels such as these were usually decorated with representat…
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Ivory statuette of a king in jubilee robe
This figurine is one of the earliest surviving portraits 'in…
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Wooden stool
The elaborate nature of this stool suggests it was made for …
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