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Time Ravishing Youth and Beauty
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European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Blumka Gallery Alexis Gregory and Alexis Gregory Foundation Gifts and Promised Gift of Alexis Gregory 1998
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Manuscript of the Tuhfat al-Ahrar (The Gift to the Noble) by Jami, with lacquer binding
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The palmette attachment plate is incised on the back only (the front face is plain where it would have connected with a patera bowl). The incisions represent two downward-curving v...
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In his Metamorphoses the Roman poet Ovid writes about Vertumnus, the god of seasons who fell in love with Pomona, a ravishing nymph who cared for fruit and orchards. She wanted not...