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Charles I, King of England
Benoît Audran I (French, 1661-1721) after Adriaen van der Werff (Dutch, 1659-1722)

Elevator Grille from the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois
Louis H. Sullivan American, 1856-1924

Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: Artist's commentary
Lan Ying (Chinese, 1585-c. 1664)

Elements of Composite Armor
German or Austrian

Slip of the Tongue
Nairy Baghramian German, born Iran, 1971

Design: Proportions of the Farnese Hercules, from Encyclopédie
Benoît-Louis Prévost (French, c. 1735-1809) published by André le Breton (French, 1708-1779), Michel-Antoine David (French, c. 1707-1769), Laurent Durand (French, 1712-1763), and Antoine-Claude Briasson (French, 1700-1775)

Frère Blaise Feuillan
Benoît Audran II (French, 1698-1772) possibly after a drawing by Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) after a painting by François de Troy (French, 1645-1730)

Handle Spout Vessel Depicting Anal Sex
Moche North coast, Peru

Cruet Set
John Delmester English, active 1755-c. 1763 London, England

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro and Nakamura Takesaburo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the play "Bando Ichi Kotobuki Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1715
Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

The Actor Shinomiya Heihachi I
Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

The Month of June/The Sign of Cancer, from The Grotesque Months
After a design by Claude III Audran (1658–1734), 1708–09 Woven at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins France, Paris

The Actor Hanaoka Miyako
Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

The Actor Nakamura Denkuro I
Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

A Hawk Capturing a Crane in Flight
Attributed to Torii Kiyomasu I Japanese, active c. 1704–18 (?)

The Fifth Month, a Set of Three (Gogatsu sambukutsui), from the series "Twelve Months by the Twin Brushes of Toyohiro and Toyokuni (Toyohiro Toyokuni ryoga juni ko)"
Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国 Japanese, 1769–1825

Gathering shell fish at low tide
Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国 Japanese, 1769–1825

The Actor Takii Hannosuke as an effeminate youth
Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

Young woman and gibbon
Torii Kiyomitsu I Japanese, 1735-1785

Evening Bell of Dojoji (Dojoji no bansho), no. 1 from the series "Eight Views of Children (Osana hakkei)"
Torii Kiyomitsu I Japanese, 1735-1785