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Small woodcut print, couple of inches across in both directions, illustrating the construction of a relatively small and hexagonal Tower of Babel being completed by a series of medieval workers. There is foliage behind the tower, and scaffolding…

This ivory mirror case depicts a noble couple riding on horseback in a hunting party. Two servants accompany them on horseback, and a child walks in front, leading the noble lady's horse. Four beasts, likely of mythological origin, frame the edges of…

"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…

Small lock with vase at center of front plate. The front plate and vase are cast in one piece and the back and sides are cast in one piece. The front plate is attached to the back and sides via two tabs that are bent over onto the top plate over the…

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

Dagger, tapered square blade, iron cross guard, spiral wood grip, stone inlay

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 a double-cinch side saddle with a backrest and likely ahistorical stirrups. It has the initials or word "Thy" on the pommel and 1875 on the back of the backrest in bronze (?). This item was collected and accessioned in 1922 by C.C. Willoughby…

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

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