Silver soup tureen by Charles Louis Boehme, Baltimore, Md., ca. 1800. Baltimore Museum of Art [4000x3000] [OC]

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Ancient Greek Sarcophagus Of Aged Lap Dog With Stone-Inlaid Jeweled Collar Sitting On Bedding - The Animal Must Have Had Its Small Head Turned In The Direction Of The Ancient Road, Looking At The Passers-By With Its Expressive Glance. [1060x1500]

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In Macedonia, bronze Phrygian caps date back to the 2nd century BC. BC e. transformed into Thracian helmets, with an elongated cumpole and a simple low metal crest or plume of feathers. [1280x792]

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Robe à la polonaise. American, 1780–1785 [1488 x 1861][OS]

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Vase depicting a man and a woman on a reed boat, Naqada II Egypt (3500-320 [800×1068]

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Helmet in the Shape of a Crouching Rabbit. (Japan 17th Century) [1125x1115]

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Roman cured ham-themed sundial necklace from Herculaneum (79 AD), now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. You can see the trotter and tail! The tail, which is missing the end, acted as the gnomon (the part of a sundial that casts a shadow) [1119x1423]

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Bottles of the oldest rum in the world; cellar of Harewood House, made in Barbados in 1780 and shipped to Britain. [1800x942].

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The choir carpet of Notre-Dame de Paris is a monumental carpet (25 meters long and weighs about 1.2 tons) that was commissioned by King Charles X in April 1825 to cover the choir of Notre Dame. Saved from the fire in 2019, the carpet is now being restored by the Mobilier national [1080x2400]

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This iron collar, from Kingskettle in Scotland, was bolted through the bottom of a coffin and around the neck of a corpse, to prevent it being removed by body snatchers who were employed by anatomists to exhume the bodies of the recently dead. Circa 1820 CE [700x459]

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The inlaid marble mosaic floor of the Siena Cathedral made between the 14th-16th century, is one of the most ornate of its kind in Italy, covering the whole floor of the cathedral. It consists of 56 panels which represent the sibyls, scenes from the Old Testament, allegories and virtues [1080x2616]

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