Extra Life, Performance by Adèle Haenel, Theo Livesey and Katia Petrowick,Choreography by Gisèle Vienne, Photography by Estelle Hanania, 2023.

Jar, Free-blown aquamarine glass, 19th century.

Pillow pitcher in glazed ceramic, Designed and made by Betty Woodman, USA, 1979-80.

Fragment, Nephrite, 1902.

Glass compound eye bead, Glass, Greek culture, ca. 4th century B.C.

Semi-opaque turquoise blue ground; additions in opaque white and translucent cobalt blue. Squat spherical shape with rounded ends to large vertical hole. Staggered pattern of six white disks, each with rosette of seven eyes in white and blue, but with one disks having only six eyes. Intact; dulling, some pitting, and faint creamy iridescent weathering. […]

Glass perfume bottle, Glass; blown with marvered trails, Roman period, Early to mid-1st century A.D.

Translucent pale yellowish green; trail in opaque white. Outsplayed rim, folded down, round, and in, with flattened top surface and inner lip around mouth; wide cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooled indent around base; piriform body; slightly concave bottom with pontil scar. Trail applied to center of bottom and wound up in a spiral, extending to […]

Ronan Bouroullec, 2017.

Moon jar, Porcelain, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910).

Extra-life, Performance by Adèle Haenel, Choreography by Gisèle Vienne, Photography by Estelle Hanania, 2023.

Libation Vessel of Manuwai, Dynasty 18, Reign of Thutmose III, Egypt, ca. 1479–1425 B.C.

Manuwai was one of three minor wives of Thutmose III whose names suggest that they came from western Asia. When these non-Egyptian women died, they were mummified and buried with the same equipment one would expect to find the tomb of a native Egyptian queen. Among other things, each was provided with a silver canister […]

Untitled, Fisherman’s boots, Unknown, 9th Century.

Pitchet, Scavo glass, Ermanno Nason for Vetreria Cenedese, 1967.

Glass spoon, Roman period, 1st–3rd century A.D.

Translucent blue green. Fire-rounded, thick, uneven rim, forming end of handle; long hollow neck, tooled in around base, forming handle; body shaped into bowl of spoon with angular bottom and tubular edge. Intact, but small weathered chips in bottom edge of bowl; some elongated bubbles in neck; slight dulling and pitting, and faint weathering on […]

Haniwa (hollow clay sculpture) of a boar, Japan, Earthenware, Kofun period (ca. 300–710).

Earthen tomb mounds, common burial practice on the Asian continent, were brought to Japan around the third century. Haniwa (clay cylinders)—at times numbering in the thousands—were placed in rows or scattered outside these tombs. Sculptors sometimes topped cylinders with figures or animals, themselves often almost abstract in aesthetic. The shape of this poignant example recalls […]

This Is How You Smile, Album by Helado Negro, 2019.

Watering a flower by Haruomi Hosono, album cover by Ikko Tanaka, 1984.

Miniature incense burner, Jun ware, Stoneware with blue glaze, 4.4cm, 2th–13th century.

Für Jessyka, Drawing on paper, Joseph Beyus, 1980.

Green Glazed Jug, ead glazed earthenware, Made in Mill Green, Essex, England,14th century.

The speckled green glaze is typical of medieval ceramics from the kilns at Mill Green, about forty miles northeast of London. For about a century, beginning around 1270, potters there created tableware both for local use and for sale in the capital and at other locales within about a forty-mile radius, including Kent, Cambridge, and […]

Bottle with Blue Trails, Glass mold-blown with applied decoration, Attributed to probably Syria, 12th century.

Ceramics and Photography by Harley Weir, The Plant Magazine, 2022.

Pair of French silk Curtains, Hubert de Givenchy Collection, Decour, 1834.

Untitled, Hand-painted ceramics by Grant Levy-Lucero for Acne Studios, 2019.

Plate, Porcelain, Unknown artist, 1640-1670.