invading Cimbrian Gauls at Vercellae, in Lombardy, an event that took place in 101 B.C
collection/search/437794 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437794 Link
BottleThis large bottle has a domed profile, a slightly flared cylindrical neck, and a low tooled foot. The decoration is divided into a series of bands. The band on the upper body includes three large medallions, each containing an eight-petaled green-and-red central star from which a complex scrolling pattern radiates outward to create a floral pattern; the outlines are in red, the background is blue and gold, and there are eight alternating pointed elements in red and white
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Textile FragmentThe royal textile factories of al-Andalus were famous throughout the medieval world in a period when luxury textiles constituted one of the most valuable possessions in a ruler’s treasury as well as in the trousseaux of wealthy brides
collection/search/448232 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/448232 Link
1932-33, excavated under the direction of James Leslie Starkey on behalf of The Wellcome-Marston Archaeological Research Expedition to the Near East; 1933, ceded to H. Dunscombe Colt in the division of finds as a result of his financial contribution to the expedition; acquired by the Museum in 1934, gift of Harris D
collection/search/323163 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/323163 Link
Footed BowlAlong with gilded examples, the most treasured glass objects in the Islamic world were the enameled ones, which developed during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Syria and Egypt under the Ayyubids and Mamluks
collection/search/444717 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/444717 Link
There is no record of this picture prior to its purchase between 1882 and 1884 by William Graham (1817–1885), a Glasgow merchant, major supporter of the Pre-Raphaelites, and notable collector of early Italian paintings
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collection/search/322484 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322484 Link
From the Passion of Christ window, choir of the castle chapel (the Schlosskapelle) at Ebreichsdorf, south of Vienna.; Lolowrat-Liebsteinsky, Ebreichsdorf (1843-73) ; Count Joseph Arco-Zinneberg, Ebreichsdorf (1873-1922) ; [ Duveen Brothers, London, Paris and New York] ; Mrs
collection/search/472160 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/472160 Link
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