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Afghanistan or Iran
Africa
Central Africa, Cameroon, Bandjoun Kingdom, Bamileke makers
Central Africa, Cameroon, Bangwa Kingdom
Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kuba-style carver
Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Luba-style carver
Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Songye-style carver and nganga (priest)
Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, probably Ngbandi-style carver
Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mangbetu-style maker
Central Africa, Kongo Kingdom, Kongo-style maker(s)
Central Africa, Republic of the Congo, Beembe-style maker
Mozambique, 20th century
West Africa, Burkina Faso, Tusyan-style maker
West Africa, Burkina Faso, possibly Bwa-style maker
West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, probably Baule-style goldsmith
West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist
West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/ Kingdom, member of the goldsmiths' guild
West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/Kingdom, Kumasi or probably Kumasi, member of the goldsmiths' guild
West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/Kingdom, probably Kumasi, member of the goldsmiths' guild
West Africa, Liberia, Dan-style blacksmith
West Africa, Mali, Bamana-style blacksmith-carver
West Africa, Nigeria, Ejagham-style maker
West Africa, Nigeria, Gwari peoples
West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker
West Africa, Nigeria, possibly Ọ̀yọ́ region, Yorùbá-style carver
America
18th century
19th century
19th-20th Century
20th Century
20th century
21st century
Connecticut, East Cornwall, Late 20th century
Late 20th century
Native North American, Southwest, Arizona, Akimel O'odham (Pima), Unassigned
Native North American, Southwest, New Mexico, Pueblo, (San Ildefonso), 20th century
Native North American, Southwest, New Mexico, Pueblo, (Zia), Early 20th century
Native North American, Southwest, New Mexico, Pueblo, San Ildefonso, Early 20th century
Native North American, Southwest, Pueblo, Post-Contact, Late Classic Period
New Jersey, 20th century
New York, 20th century
New York, NY, 19th century
New York, early 20th Century
New York, late 19th-early 20th Century
Ohio, 20th century
Ohio, Cleveland
Oregon, Coos Bay, 20th century
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Queen Anne style, 18th century
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia?, 19th century
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh ?, mid-19th century
Rhode Island, Newport, 18th century
early 20th Century
late 18th-19th Century
late 19th Century-early20th Century
late 19th-early 20th Century
America and England
American
Asia Minor
Austria or South Germany
Bohemia
Burkina Faso
Byzantium
Constantinople
Constantinople, 11th century
Constantinople, Byzantine period
Constantinople, Byzantine period, 11th century
Constantinople, Byzantine period, 11th-12th century
Constantinople?, early Byzantine period, 6th century
Contantinople, Byzantine period, 11th century
Palestine, Byzantine period, 7th-10th century
Syria, early Byzantine period, 6th century
Central India
China
Beijing
Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220)
Fujian province, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
Hebei province, Eastern Wei dynasty (534-550)
Henan Province, Baofeng, Qingliangsi, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Henan province, Jincun, Warring States period (475-221 BC)
Henan province, Northern Dynasties period (386-581)
Henan province, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign (1662-1722)
Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong mark and period (1736-95)
Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1735-1795)
Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Chenghua mark and period (1465-1487)
Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Yongzheng mark and period (1723-35)
Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Jin dynasty (1115-1234) or Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918-1392)
Liao dynasty (916-1125)
Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
Ming dynasty (1368-1644) - Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Yongle reign (1403-1424)
Modern
Northern Qi dynasty (550-577)
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign (1662-1722)
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong mark and reign (1736-95)
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1736-95)
Shaanxi province, Meixian, Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046-771 BC)
Song dynasty (960-1279)
Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) - Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
Tang dynasty (618-907)
Warring States period (475-221 BC)
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9)
Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) or later
Yunnan province, Dali kingdom (938-1253)
Zhejiang province, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
Zhou dynasty (c. 1046-256 BC)
early 19th century
late Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) - Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
late Southern Song (1127-1279) - early Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
probably Henan province, Tang dynasty (618-907)
probably Shaanxi province, Xi'an, Tang dynasty (618-907)
reportedly from Hunan province, Changsha, Warring States period (475-221 BC), State of Chu (c. 1046-223 BC)
Classical
Colombia or Panama
Crete
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Early Bronze Age
East Greek
Eastern Java
Egypt
Abbasid period(?), 8th - 9th century
Abbasid period, late 8th - early 9th centuries
Abbasid period, mid-8th to mid-9th century
Byzantine period (?), 5th century (?)
Byzantine period, 4th - 5th century
Byzantine period, 4th - 6th century
Byzantine period, 4th-5th century
Byzantine period, 4th-6th century
Byzantine period, 6th century
Fatimid period, 12th century
Fatimid period, late 11th century
Fustat (Old Cairo), Fatimid period (909-1171)
Greco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty or earlier
Greco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty, probably late 2nd Century BC
Greco-Roman Period, Roman Empire
Karnak, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep IV, 1353-1337 BC
Late Period, Dynasty 26 or later
Late Period, Dynasty 30, reign of Nectanebo II
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12 (1980-1801), reign of Amenemhat III
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC), reign of Amenhotep II
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (1540-1296), reign of Amenhotep III
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, 1391-1353 BC
New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, reign of Ramesses II, 1279-1213 BC
New Kingdom, Late Dynasty 18
New Kingdom, Mid-Dynasty 18, 1540-1296 BC
New Kingdom, late Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC)
Presumably Thebes, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, 1391-1353 BC
Ptolemaic Dynasty
Ptolemaic Dynasty (305-30 BC)
Roman Empire, late Tiberian
Thebes, Third Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21 (1069-945 BC) - early Dynasty 22 (945-924 BC)
Thebes, Third Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21 (1069-945 BC) to early Dynasty 22 (945-715 BC)
Thebes, Third Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21 (1069-945 BC) to early Dynasty 22 (945-924 BC)
Third Intermediate Period
Umayyad period (661-750)
Umayyad period (661-750) or Abbasid period (750-1258)
Umayyad period (661-750)?
England
16th century
17th century
17th century (Charles II)
18th century
19th century
20th century
21st century
Bristol
Chelsea, mid-18th century
Derby, 18th century
Derby, 19th century
Derby, mid-18th century
London
London, 17th century (Charles II)
London, 17th century (James II)
London, 18th century
London, 19th century
London, Chelsea
Staffordshire
Staffordshire, 18th century
Worcester
Worcester, 18th century
early 19th Century
late 18th-early 19th century
late 19th-early 20th century
mid-18th century
Etruscan
Finland
France
Paris, early 20th Century
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
18th century (?)
18th century, Period of Louis XV (1723-1774)
18th century, period of Louis XV (1723-1774)
19th century
19th-20th century
20th century
20th century (?)
Champagne
Chantilly, 18th century
Loire Valley, 14th century
Lorraine?, Gothic period, 14th century
Lorraine?, or Austria?, Gothic period, 14th century
Lyon(?), early 16th century
Lyon, 15th century
Mennecy, 18th century
Metz, 15th century
Nancy ?, early 20th Century
Paris
Paris, 14th century
Paris, 15th century
Paris, 16th century
Paris, 20th century
Paris, Ile-de-France, Gothic period, early 14th century
Paris, early 19th century
Paris, early 20th Century
Paris, late 14th-early 15th century
Paris, late 14th-early15th century
Poitou, Melle, 15th century
Rouen, 15th century
Rouen, 16th century
Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, 12th century
Strasbourg, 18th century
Transitional Style, Louis XV to Louis XVI, 18th century
early 18th century
early 19th Century
early 20th Century
early 20th century
late 17th century
late 18th century
late 18th century, Period of Louis XVI (1774-1793)
late 18th-early 19th century
late 19th Century
late 19th century - early 20th century
late 19th century-early 20th century
late 19th-early 20th Century
late 19th-early 20th century
made in Genoa, 17th century
mid-18th century
probably Poitiers, 15th century
probably modern
style of Louis XV, 20th century
France or Flanders
France or Italy
Franco-Netherlandish
Germany
15th century
16th century
17th century
17th century or later
18th century
19th century
20th century
Augsburg or Hungary, 16th century
Augsburg, 16th century
Bavaria, 18th century
Berlin, 20th century
Cologne, 15th century
Lower Saxony, Brunswick, Gothic period, 15th century
Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Gothic period, first half 13th century
Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Romanesque period, late 12th century
Lower Saxony?, 11th century
Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century
Middle Rhine, 15th century
Nuremberg (?), early 16th Century
Nuremberg, 16th century
Nuremberg, early 16th Century
Saxony, 16th century
Strassburg, 16th century
Swabia, near Bodensee (Lake Constance)
Würzburg, 16th century
Würzburg, late 15th Century
born Ensingen, active Austria, 15th century
early 16th Century
late 15th Century
late 15th-early 16th Century
late 19th century
works in France, 20th century
Germany (?)
Germany (or Netherlands)
Greece
18th century
6th Century BC
Alexandria, Hellenistic
Archaic period, 6th century BC
Athens, mid-fourth century
Attic
Crete, 19th century
Cyclades Islands, Southern Group, 16th century
Greco-Roman Period, late Ptolemaic Dynasty
Peloponnesus, late archaic - early classical period
Sicyon(?), 5th Century BC
Tarentum (Taranto, Italy), Hellenistic Period
Thrace, Sarakatsani People, 19th century
probably from workshop of Locri or Tarentum, Classical Period
Greek/South Italian
Guatemala(?)
Hilt: Italy (?); Blade: Germany
Iceland
India
12th-14th century
17th century
20th century
Bijapur, Deccan
Delhi
Gujarat, 19th century
Kashmir
Madhya Pradesh, Bharhut, Shunga Period
Mathura, Kushan Period (1st century-320)
Mathura, Kushan period (AD 1-320)
Mathura, Kushan period (c. 80-375)
Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756)
Mughal, 18th century
Nalanda, Pala Period, 10th Century
Popular Mughal school, 17th century
Rajasthan, Jaipur, 18th century
Rajasthan, Kota, 18th century
Rajasthan, Probably Jaipur, 18th century
Sikh, 19th century
early 19th century
probably Jaipur, 18th century
Indonesia
Intermediate Region
Iran
18th century
Isfahan, Safavid period (1501-1722)
Isfahan, in the style of the Safavid period (1501-1722)
Khurasan, Ilkhanid period (1256-1353)
Khurasan, Seljuq period of Iran (1037-1194)
Sasanian, 5th-6th Century
Seljuq period (1037-1194)
Seljuq period of Iran (1037-1194)
Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)
Tabriz, Ilkhanid period (1256-1353)
early Islamic period, 8th - 10th century
Israel
Isthmian Region (Colombia)
Isthmian Region (Panama)
Italy
13th century
14th century
15th century
15th century (?)
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
Arezzo, 15th century
Bologna, 17th century
Etruscan, 3rd or early 2nd Century BC
Etruscan, 5th century
Etruscan, early 4th Century BC
Etruscan, late 6th Century BC
Ferrarese, 16th century
Florence, 14th century
Florence, 15th century
Florence, 16th century
Florence, late 15th century
Genoa
Lucca or Venice ?, first half 15th century
Milan, 15th century
Naples, 17th century
Naples, 18th century
Papal States, Deruta
Pisa, 13th century
Roman
Roman, 1st Century
Roman, 1st-2nd Century
Roman, 3rd century
Roman, Antonine period, 2nd Century
Roman, Augustan period
Roman, early 2nd Century
Roman, mid-3rd Century
Rome, 17th century
Rome, Early Imperial period
Rome, Roman Empire
Siena, 15th century
Siena?, 14th century
Siena?, 15th century
Tuscany, 15th century
Tuscany, Florence, 16th century
Umbria, 14th century
Urbino
Urbino region, Gubbio, 16th century
Venice, 16th century
Venice, 18th century
Venice, 19th century
Verona(?), 15th century
Vicarello (ancient Aquae Apollinares), Roman, Augustan period
early 15th century
first third of 17th century
last quarter of 14th century
late 15th-early 16th Century
late 16th - 17th century
late 16th century
late 16th century (possibly 19th century forgery, or 16th and 19th century pastiche)
late 19th century
mid 15th century
mid-late 17th century
possibly Padua, 16th century
second quarter of 15th century
the Marches, late 14th-early 15th Century
Italy ?
Itlay
Japan
20th century
Asuka period (538-710)
Edo period (1615-1868)
Heian period (794-1185)
Jōmon period (c. 10,500-300 BC)
Kamakura period (1185-1333)
Late 20th century
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Momoyama period (1573-1615)
Momoyama period (1573-1615) to Edo period (1615-1858)
Muromachi period (1392-1573)
Muromachi period (1392-1573) to Momoyama period (1573-1615)
Nara period (710-94)
Shōwa period (1926-89)
late 18th century
possibly Edo period (1615-1868)
Mexico or Central America
Mughal India
Netherlands
15th century
16th century
16th-17th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
Bruges, 15th century
Leuven, 15th century
Leuvuen, 15th century
South Lowlands, 16th century
active Dijon, 15th century
early 16th century
early 18th century
late 16th Century
late 17th-early 18th century
or possibly France, 14th century
North Italy
North Syria
Northeast China
Northeast Ohio
Northeastern France or the Burgundian Netherlands
Northeastern India
Northeastern Thailand
Northern France
Northern India
Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh, 9th-10th Century
Mughal court, 17th century
Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Chamba, Court of Raj Singh (reigned 1764-94)
Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Guler
Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Nurpur, Court of Dayadhata (reigned 1700-1735)
Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, possibly Rajput Kingdom of Mandi, court of Sidh Sen (reigned 1684-1727)
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, Kushan Period
Northern Italy
Northwest Honduras
Northwest India or Kashmir
Panama
Azuero Peninsula, Parita style, 11th-16th century
Conte style, 5th - 10th century
Darién or Venado Beach region, Openwork style, 5th-8th Century
Initial style, 2nd-8th century
International Style, 5th-8th century
International style, 5th-7th century
Veraguas or Parita style, c. 1000-1550
Veraguas-Chiriquí style, 10th-16th century
Peru
Central Coast, Chancay people
Central Coast, Chancay, 12th-15th century
Moche, 3rd-8th Century
North Coast, Chimú style, 1200-1460s
North Coast, Chongoyape(?), Chavín style (1000-200 BC)
North Coast, Moche style(?) (50-800)
South Coast, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700)
South Coast, Nasca, 4th-7th Century
South Coast, Paracas, Cavernas Style, 3rd-2nd Century BC
Republic of Panamá
Sardinia
South Germany
South Italian
South Italy
South Netherlands
Southern Asia Minor
Southern Germany
Southern India
Southwest,Pueblo
Southwestern India
Spain (?) or Italy
Spain (Catalonia)
Spain (Hispano-Moresque)
Spanish
Sweden
Thailand
Tibet
Unassigned
Visigothic
West Mexico
Western Sudan