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Oboe in C

Hendrik Richters (Netherlandish, 1684–1727)

Date: before 1727
Accession Number: 53.56.11

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Date: carving ca. 1300, painting ca. 1310–20
Accession Number: 1982.60.399

Hardanger Fiddle

Date: 1786
Accession Number: 2008.268

Mechanical Dog

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

English Horn

H. Grenser

Date: before 1807
Accession Number: 1980.111a,b

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

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Date: ca. 18th century B.C.
Accession Number: 32.161.46

Hunting Sword with Scabbard

Grip attributed to Joseph Deutschmann (German, Imst 1717–1787 Passau)

Date: ca. 1740
Accession Number: 26.145.243a, b

Hair Comb Decorated with Rows of Wild Animals

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

Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Top

Date: ca. 1550–1458 B.C.
Accession Number: 16.10.425

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre

Date: ca. 1170
Accession Number: 1996.224

Handle for a Fly Whisk (Tahiri)

Date: 18th century or earlier
Accession Number: 1978.412.875

Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba

Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1978.412.323

Koto

Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1986.470.3

Handle Depicting a Lion Subduing a Nubian

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

Chair of Reniseneb

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

Male Figure (Moai Tangata)

Date: early 19th century
Accession Number: 1984.526

"État" Cabinet

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

Date: 1926
Accession Number: 25.231.1

Rectangular Octave Virginal

Date: ca. 1600
Accession Number: 89.4.1778

Soprano Recorder in B

Thomas Coenraet Boekhout

Date: ca. 1700
Accession Number: 89.4.912

Headdress

Date: 19th–20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.266

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

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

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

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

Kamanche

Date: ca. 1880
Accession Number: 1998.72

Lidded Saltcellar

Date: 15th–16th century
Accession Number: 1991.435a, b

Openwork plaque with sphinxes

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

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Date: ca. 962–968
Accession Number: 41.100.157

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

Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment

Date: ca. 1260–70
Accession Number: 1970.324.7a, b

Guitar

attributed to Jean-Baptiste Voboam

Date: 1697
Accession Number: 1989.147

Bondjo

Date: ca. 1915
Accession Number: 1992.326

Sitar

Murari Adhikari (Indian)

Date: 1997
Accession Number: 1999.399

Female Figure

Date: early 19th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1470

Flower-Style Box with Drawers

Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1976.176.1

Musette de Cour

unknown, France

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

Casket with Scenes from Romance

Date: ca. 1310–1330
Accession Number: 17.190.173a, b

Flintlock Rifle

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

Date: ca. 1810–15
Accession Number: 42.22

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

Guitar

Date: ca. 1800
Accession Number: 69.29

Pipa

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

Pair of Ivory Clappers

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

Ivory decorative plaque

Date: 2nd half of 7th century B.C.
Accession Number: 17.190.73

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Date: ca. 1300
Accession Number: 1979.402

Tombak

Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 89.4.1310

Cornetto in A

Date: ca. 1575
Accession Number: 52.96.1

Mirror Case

Date: 1350–75
Accession Number: 41.100.160

A Tusk Figurine of a Man

Date: ca. 3900–3500 B.C.
Accession Number: 23.2.31

Transverse Flute

Garion (French)

Date: ca. 1720–40
Accession Number: 2005.365