This Mayuri (peacock) from India was made in the 1800s with wood, parchment, metal, and feathers.
Seated Female Musicians from China, late 7th century
A Chinese Yunluo ("cloud gong"), from the 1800s.
Central-Asian shaft-hole axhead with a bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon, late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C.E.
Love in the Italian Theater (L'Amour au théâtre italien)
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721)
Details from Camel: From the Berain Grotesques, circa 1685–89
Designed by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636–1699); Woven at the Beauvais manufactory under the direction of Philippe Behagle (1641–1705) or his son of the same name.
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