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  • Wine Container (Jia)

    Date
    ca. 14th century BCE
    Period
    Shang dynasty
  • Fragment from Maharaja Pratap Singh with ladies of the royal harem

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    1780-1800
    Period
    Kachavaha dynasty
  • Bowl with foliate rim and incised decoration

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    11th-early 12th century
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    Northern Song dynasty
  • The Gallery of Medieval Art, Brooklyn museum

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    1936
    1936]
  • Skönhetens spegel : konstskatter från Indien / katalogredaktör, Jan Wirgin ; katalogtext, Sadashiv Gorakshkar, Kalpana Desai, Madhav Gandhi ; översättning, Kirshna Dutt = Mirror of beauty : art treasures from India / edited by Jan Wirgin ; text by Sadashiv Gorakshkar, Kalpana Desai, Madhav Gandhi ; translated by Kirshna Dutt

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    1987
  • Anṭipatos : humor afel, ironyah ṿe-tsiniyut be-omanut Yiśreʼelit ʻakhshaṿit / otseret oraḥat, Tami Kats-Friman ; otser aḥaraʼi, Yigʼal Tsalmonah

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    1993
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  • Iets oor die Boesmankultuur / deur Reenen J. van Reenen

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    1920
  • Dialogue in diverse views / World Bank Art Society

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  • Index of American Design exhibition, Downtown Gallery

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    1937 Sept. 29
  • Woman with Gold Beads

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    1825-30

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