The Harvesters: detail of left

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on wood

Return of the Herd: houses at upper left

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on wood

Plate with figures around a pool, two bands of Naskhi inscription

Shamsuddin al-Hasani Abu Zayd; 1 29/64 in.x 1 ft. 1 55/64 in.x 9 59/64 in.; stone-paste painted over glaze with luster

Tile with Image of Phoenix: detail

Tiles, Iran, Ilkhanid; 1 ft. 2 49/64 in. x 1 ft. 2 1/4 in.; stonepaste; modeled, underglaze painted in blue and turquoise, luster-painted on opaque white ground

Figure of Lu Dongbin

Metalwork, Chinese, Ming; H: 10 3/64 in.; cast bronze

Figure of a Mythical Lion

Metalwork, Chinese, Ming; L: 3 35/64 in.; gilt bronze inlaid with precious stones

Khusrau Seated on his Throne", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizam

Shaikh Zada; 1 ft. 41/64 in.x 8 21/32 in.; opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper

The Triumph of Fame (reverse)

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi; D: 3 ft. 1/2 in. (painted surface); tempera, silver, and gold on wood

Basin of Sultan Qaytbay

Metalwork, Islamic, Mamluk; 5 in.x 1 ft. 2 31/64 in.; brass, inlaid with silver

Face of Senwosret III

Sculpture, Egyptian, Middle Kingdom; 6 1/2 in.x 4 61/64 in.x 4 31/64 in.; red quartzite

Tomb Chapel of Nebamun, interior, #10, Nebamun hunting in the Marches

Thebes (deserted settlement), Egypt; 2 ft. 8 43/64 in. x 3 ft. 2 37/64 in.; pigment on plaster

Villa Agrippa Postumus, Mythological Room (19), Perseus and Andromeda in Landscape

Boscotrecase, Italy; 6 ft. 1 3/4 in.x 3 ft. 11 in.; fresco on lime plaster

The Triumph of Death: living pushed into a trap

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; tempera and oil on panel

The Tower of Babel: detail

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; oil on oak

The Tower of Babel

Pieter Bruegel the Elder; 3 ft. 8 7/8 in. x 5 ft. 1 1/32 in.; oil on oak