Royal Cemetery, PG779, excavated artifact, #U.11164, Standard of Ur, left end

Ur (deserted settlement), Iraq; 8 35/64 in.x 4 9/16 in.; shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone; set in bitumen

Royal Cemetery, PG779, excavated artifact, #U.11164, Standard of Ur, right end

Ur (deserted settlement), Iraq; 8 35/64 in.x 4 9/16 in.; shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone; set in bitumen

North Palace, Room C, Lion Hunt, King Ashurbanipal in a Chariot shooting Lions

Nineveh (deserted settlement), Iraq; gypsum

Water Flask, back view

Glass, Islamic, Ayyubid; 9 9/64 in.x 5 63/64 in.; glass,gold, gilt and enameled

The Snettisham Great Torc: detail

electrum, twisted, chased, embossed and cast

Royal Cemetery, PG779, excavated artifact, #U.11164, Standard of Ur, War Side

Ur (deserted settlement), Iraq; 8 35/64 in.x 1 ft. 7 27/32 in.x 4 9/16 in.; shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone; set in bitumen

Blacas Ewer

11 31/32 in.x 8 21/32 in.x 8 15/32 in.; engraved, engraved and inlaid with silver and copper

Stupa 2, excavated artifact, The Bimaran Reliquary

Bimaran, Darunta, Afghanistan; 2 9/16 in.x 2 19/32 in.; repoussé, gold and garnets

A Seated Female Nude

Aert de Gelder, attributed to; 7 19/32 in.x 8 55/64 in.; pen and brown ink with brown wash

Young Man in high-crowned hat, asleep

Willem Drost; 6 3/8 in.x 7 3/64 in.; pen and brown ink touched with brown wash and with later red-brown wash

Cup in the shape of a flower

Willem Drost; H: 2 11/64 in.; jade

A Study for the Portrait of Maria Tripp

Rembrandt van Rijn; 6 19/64 in.x 5 5/64 in.; pen and brown iron-gall ink, with brown wash, heightened with white

Hagar and Ishmael

Aert de Gelder; 6 3/8 in.x 7 3/64 in.; pen and brown ink touched with brown wash and with later red-brown wash

Christ walking on the waves

Rembrandt van Rijn; 7 33/64 in.x 11 29/64 in.; reed pen and brown ink, touched with white; ruled framing lines in pen and brown ink

St Paul preaching at Athens

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout; 7 3/32 in.x 8 3/16 in.; pen and brown ink with brown and reddish-brown wash and some white heightening; touched with red chalk