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Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mrs. William L. Payson in memory of her husband William L. Payson (Class of 1923 Harvard Law School 1926) and of her son William L. Payson Jr. (Class of 1954)
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Fan of paper and silk, girl and vines, designed by George Barbier, Paris, France, 1911. Decorated fan of printed and hand-coloured paper and painted silk. The sticks and guards are of bone with painted decoration of grapes and butterflies. The rivet and c
Fan of paper and silk, girl and vines, designed by George Barbier, Paris, France, 1911. Decorated fan of printed and hand-coloured paper and painted silk. The sticks and guards are of bone with painted decoration of grapes and butterflies. The rivet and c
Fan of paper and silk, girl and vines, designed by George Barbier, Paris, France, 1911. Decorated fan of printed and hand-coloured paper and painted silk. The sticks and guards are...
Table Plateau
Table Plateau
BORDSPLATY Consisting of a bottom plate (plateau) with a mirror glass, two flower bowls with artificial bouquets, two fruit bowls with glass bowls, six confectionery bowls with gla...
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script
This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with twenty columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters and thus of varying lengths. The ...
S. k. double protection cage repeater
S. k. double protection cage repeater
Boett of gold, dial of enamel, work with s. k. Spindle and Percussion. Decor engraved and in broken pattern. Ground shell slightly convex, with a vulst-shaped outer edge. In the mi...
May God give you glory in both worlds
May God give you glory in both worlds
This is an example of a rarefied and extremely painstaking genre of calligraphy in which a dried leaf was used for the support. In this case, the leaf appears to be from a horse ch...
Rectangular pendant, two back-to-back bevelled edge rock crystal panels each backed with engraved gold leaf depicting St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Christopher, mounted in a silver frame, probably Upper Rhenish, about 1470-1480. Rectangular pendant
Rectangular pendant, two back-to-back bevelled edge rock crystal panels each backed with engraved gold leaf depicting St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Christopher, mounted in a silver frame, probably Upper Rhenish, about 1470-1480. Rectangular pendant
Rectangular pendant, two back-to-back bevelled edge rock crystal panels each backed with engraved gold leaf depicting St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Christopher, mounted in a ...
Fickur med châtelaine samt etui
Fickur med châtelaine samt etui
Of gold with enamel, miniature painting, oriental pearls and jargons, dial of enamel, works with s. k. spider canal. Bottom shell convex. On this in cover enamel a figure scene in ...