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Handle Depicting a Lion Subduing a Nubian

Date: ca. 1279–1213 B.C.
Accession Number: 1989.281.92

Handle for a Fly Whisk (Tahiri)

Date: 18th century or earlier
Accession Number: 1978.412.875

Koto

Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan (1603 - 1673)

Date: early 17th century
Accession Number: 2007.194a–f

Flintlock Rifle

Jacob Kuntz (American, Allentown, Pennsylvania 1780–1876 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Date: ca. 1810–15
Accession Number: 42.22

Flintlock Gun

Pierre Le Bourgeois (French, Lisieux, died 1627)

Date: ca. 1620
Accession Number: 1972.223

Sideblown Trumpet

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1999.74

Furniture fragment with the "woman at the window"

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 57.80.12

Crucified Christ

Date: ca. 1260–80
Accession Number: 1978.521.3

Guitar

Attributed to Matteo Sellas (German, Füssen ca. 1599–1654 Venice)

Date: ca. 1630–50
Accession Number: 1990.103

Archlute

David Tecchler (Austrian, Salzburg 1666–1747 Rome)

Date: ca. 1725
Accession Number: 1988.87

Guitar

Date: ca. 1800
Accession Number: 69.29

Pair of Minbar Doors

Date: ca. 1325–30
Accession Number: 91.1.2064

Openwork plaque with an oryx eating a plant beside a tree

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 58.31.3

Whip Handle in the Shape of a Horse

Date: ca. 1390–1353 B.C.
Accession Number: 26.7.1293

Kamanche

Date: ca. 1880
Accession Number: 1998.72

Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba

Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1978.412.323

Musette de Cour

unknown, France

Date: ca. 1700
Accession Number: 2003.63a–d

Pipa

Date: late 15th–early 16th century
Accession Number: 50.145.74

Cornet à Pistons in B-flat

Courtois frères

Date: 1833
Accession Number: 2002.190a–n

Rectangular Octave Virginal

Date: ca. 1600
Accession Number: 89.4.1778

Gazelle

Date: ca. 1390–1353 B.C.
Accession Number: 26.7.1292

Figure of an Asin captive, perhaps from a piece of furniture

Date: ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
Accession Number: 66.99.50

Spinet

Date: 1540
Accession Number: 53.6 a, b

Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg

Attributed to Heinrich Heid von Winterthur (probably Swiss, active Stuttgart, recorded 1453–1460)

Date: dated 1460
Accession Number: 04.3.36

Mandolin

Angelo Mannello (American, Morcone, Italy 1858–1922 New York)

Date: ca. 1900
Accession Number: 1972.111.1a-c

Chair of Reniseneb

Date: ca. 1450 B.C.
Accession Number: 68.58

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists

Date: 1000–1050
Accession Number: 17.190.38

The Cloisters Cross

Date: 12th century
Accession Number: 63.12

Openwork plaque with sphinxes

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 57.80.4a, b

Tribute bearer with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin

Date: ca. 8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 60.145.11

Panel from a Cenotaph or Symbolic Coffin with Marquetry Decoration

Date: second half 8th century
Accession Number: 37.103

Female Figure

Date: early 19th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1470

Pair of Transverse Flutes

Johann Wilhelm Oberlender ((the Elder 1681-1763))

Date: mid-18th century
Accession Number: 1996.13.1

Koto

Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1986.470.3

Mechanical Dog

Date: ca. 1390–1353 B.C.
Accession Number: 40.2.1

Transverse Flute

Garion (French)

Date: ca. 1720–40
Accession Number: 2005.365

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Date: early 9th century
Accession Number: 1977.421

English Horn

H. Grenser

Date: before 1807
Accession Number: 1980.111a,b

Plaque with the Journey to Emmaus and Noli Me Tangere

Date: ca. 1115–20
Accession Number: 17.190.47

Hair Comb Decorated with Rows of Wild Animals

Date: ca. 3200–3100 B.C.
Accession Number: 30.8.224

Pair of Ivory Clappers

Date: ca. 1353–1336 B.C.
Accession Number: 32.5.2a, b

Sarangi

Date: ca. 1900
Accession Number: 1982.143.2

Icon with the Crucifixion

Date: mid-10th century
Accession Number: 17.190.44

Helmet Mask (Temes Mbalmbal)

Date: mid-20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1697

Cittern

Joachim Tielke (1641 - 1719)

Date: ca. 1685
Accession Number: 1985.124

Walking-Stick Flute/Oboe

Georg Henrich Scherer (German, 1703 - 1778)

Date: ca. 1750–57
Accession Number: 2006.86a–c

Yataghan from the Court of Suleyman the Magnificent

Workshop of Ahmed Tekelü (possibly Iranian, active Istanbul, ca. 1520–30)

Date: ca. 1525
Accession Number: 1993.14

Lidded Vessel

Date: 17th–18th century
Accession Number: 1991.17.126a, b

Three Holy Women at the Holy Sepulcher

Date: early 10th century
Accession Number: 1993.19

"État" Cabinet

Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann (French, Paris 1879–1933 Paris)

Date: 1926
Accession Number: 25.231.1