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A circular sculpture with inscription around perimeter: FRANCO CUM REX JOHANNES DEI GRA CIA

This act records the inventory of the estate of the cauldron-maker Johannes Bonerii, which was compiled at the request of Poncius Chabassii, guardian for his children. Johannes's widow, Goveta, had formerly been their children's guardian, but she now…

This blue cut and voided velvet is compound weaved in the "feronnerie" velvet style with a pomegranate motif within lobed ogival arches.

This is the right hand side of a handwritten bifolio of the Qur'an, produced toward the end of the Abbasid Period, when books proliferated throughout the Islamic world and the Qur'an became a written text rather than an oral tradition. The artifact…

This is an initial depicting a knight framed by a gothic pinnacle with crockets.The piece further utilizes black and red watercolors to center its subject on parchment.

Early Medieval Chalky ware pot from Smithfield, London (England). Wheel thrown with grey-buff fabric.

The object is made up of two copper alloy pieces joined by an iron rivet at the center. Both of the pieces were cast by the lost-wax process.

The decorative pattern of a circle with a dot at the center was created in the metal with a single…

"This circular attachment joins a disc with gold-wire dragon decoration to a rectangular tang. A very regular circular hole pierces the middle of the disc. There is an irregular elliptical hole at the top of the disc and a more regular elliptical…

Brass bowl depicting Saint George and the Dragon. Gift of Mrs. George S. Selfridge to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1965