Textile Fragment with Palace Landscape Design | ca. 1800-50 | Edo period | Japan

Keisai Eisen (渓斉英泉) | The Courtesan Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya | ca. 1830 | Edo period | Japan

Maghrebi Script Manuscript Leaf | 1888 (1306 A.H.) | Morocco

Utagawa School | Nakamura Shikan IV as Hige no Ikyu | ca. 1860-90s | Edo-Meiji period | Japan

The Magnificat: Antiphonal Manuscript Fragment | 16th century | Spain

Charles Laplante | Peasants from the environs of Athens | 1883 | France

Hoi An Hoard Blue and White Porcelain Ovoid Jar | ca. 1450-1500 | Vietnam

Kashan dish | Late 12th-early 13th century | Central Iran

Illa Figure of a Sheep | early 20th century | Bolivia

Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) | The Noblewoman Taira no Tokuko (Kenreimon-in) | ca. 1845–48 | Edo period | Japan

Chasuble | Late 18th-19th century | Colonial - Santa Anna Period | Made in: Spain (?); Used in: Mexico

Ca Mau Blue and White Porcelain Saucer | ca. 1725 | China

Utagawa Kuninao (歌川國直), Takako (鷹子) | Beauty Compared to a Kyōka Verse | ca. 1810-30 | Edo period | Japan

Utagawa Toyokuni I (歌川 豊国 ) | Interior View of the Nakamura Kabuki Theatre during a Performance of Soga no Taimen (The Confrontation of the Soga Brothers) | 1805 | Edo period | Japan

Cornelis de Bruyn | Cypriot fossils | 1698 | Netherlands or France(?)

Shabti Doll | ca. 744 BC–656 BCE | 25th Dynasty (?) | Egypt

Hoi An Hoard Blue and White Porcelain Ovoid Jar | ca. 1450-1500 | Vietnam

Xiangyun Drunken Sleeping, Changzhou Comb | 20th century | China

Peranakan (Straits Chinese) Beaded Headband | Early 1900 | South East Asia

Embroidered Towel | 19th century | Ottoman period | Turkey

Empress of the Ming Dynasty with Maid | ca. 1820-1900 | Qing dynasty | China

Portrait of a Young Boy | Mid-19th century | Ambrotype | USA

Toyohara Kunichika (豊原 国周) | Jinriki Tamigoro | 1868 | Edo period | Japan

Utagawa Kuniyasu (歌川国安) | Geisha Shielding Face | ca. 1820-32 | Edo period | Japan

Utagawa School | Preparatory Drawing of Kabuki Scene | ca. 1850-1900 | Edo-Meiji period | Japan

Tulip Delft Wall Tile | ca. 1630-60 | Netherlands

Winsor & Newton | Brown Pink Oil Paint Tube | ca. 1882-1900 | Victorian era | United Kingdom

Utagawa School | Preparatory Shunga Drawing of the Second Month (At a Tea house During the Hatsu-uma Festival) | ca. 1840-70 | Edo - Meiji period | Japan

Kanzashi Hairpin with Family Crest and Birds Design | 19th century | Edo period | Japan

Export Brooch with Jadeite Flower | Jade Carving: 18th-19th century (Qing dynasty), Setting: ca.1912-49s (Republic period) | China

The Eternal, Inexhaustible and Complete Storehouse for Occasional Use of Great Japan (Dai Nihon Eitai Setsuyo Mujinzo), Vol 2 | ca. 1864 | Edo period | Japan

Master DS | Basilisk Supporting the Arms of the City of Basel | 1511 | Northern Renaissance | Switzerland

Utagawa Kuniyasu (歌川国安) | Beauty Under Moonlight | ca. 1811-15 | Edo period | Japan

Kaishi-ire (Paper Case) | 19th century | Edo-Meiji period | Japan

Utagawa Toyokuni I (歌川豊国) | Utsubo-Zaru (The Monkey's Quiver) | 1815 | Edo period | Japan

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) | Preparatory Drawing of Bando Hikosaburo V as Iyami Kingoro | ca. 1856 | Edo period | Japan