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Changxin Palace Lamp
The Changxin Palace Lamp (长信宫灯) is a Western Han gilt-bronze lamp shaped as a kneeling attendant, excavated in 1968 and held in the Hebei Museum.
Chantilly porcelain
Chantilly porcelain is soft-paste porcelain made at Chantilly in northern France from about 1730 to the end of the eighteenth century, the first French porcelain imitating Japanese wares and marked with a hunting horn.
Chavín goldwork
Chavín goldwork is the hammered sheet-gold ornament production of ancient Peru's Chavín culture, roughly 900 to 200 BCE, and the first sophisticated metalwork in South America.
Cheapside Hoard
The Cheapside Hoard is a cache of nearly 500 Elizabethan and Jacobean jewels found in a Cheapside cellar in 1912, almost all held by the London Museum.
Chen Mingyuan
Chen Mingyuan (陈鸣远) was a Chinese Yixing stoneware potter active under the Kangxi and Yongzheng reigns of the Qing dynasty, regarded as the most eminent Yixing potter after Shi Dabin.
Chicken Cup
The Chicken Cup (鬥彩雞缸杯) is a small doucai porcelain wine cup painted with chickens, made at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen during the Ming dynasty's Chenghua reign (1465–1487).
Chilkat Blanket Designs
Chilkat blanket designs, called Naaxiin by the Tlingit, are crest compositions woven into fringed ceremonial robes of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Chimú tapestry and painted textiles
Chimú tapestry and painted textiles are woven and painted cloths made by the Chimú culture of Peru's north coast, centered at Chan Chan, from about 900 to 1470.
Chinese cloisonné
Chinese cloisonné (jingtailan) is a decorative art in which copper wires form patterns on metal vessels, with cells filled with colored enamel, introduced from the Islamic world during the Yuan dynasty and matured under the Ming.
Choker
Choker: a necklace worn tightly around the neck, typically under 14–16 inches. Known also as colliers de chien; worn since Sumerian times around 2500 BC as amulets, popularized by Alexandra of Denmark, revived in 1990s grunge.
Cizhou ware
Cizhou ware (磁州窯) is a non-imperial Chinese stoneware from kilns in Hebei, named for the Song prefecture of Cizhou and known for black-painted decoration on white slip.
Coptic textiles
Coptic textiles are the decorated woven fabrics of Egypt from roughly the 3rd to the 12th century, tapestry work on linen preserved in dry burials.
Coromandel screen
A Coromandel screen is a large Chinese folding screen made with kuancai lacquer, carved and filled with colored pigments, exported to Europe via India's Coromandel coast.
Coronation Egg
The Coronation Egg is an 1897 Imperial Fabergé egg made in Saint Petersburg, gifted by Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, with a miniature coronation carriage inside.
Coronation Spoon
The Coronation Spoon is a 12th-century silver-gilt spoon that holds holy oil during the anointing of the British sovereign, and the only medieval item of regalia to survive.
Cross of Cong
The Cross of Cong is an Irish processional reliquary cross made in 1123 to hold a relic of the True Cross, now in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Crown of Charlemagne
The Crown of Charlemagne is the name of two French regalia: the medieval coronation crown melted down in 1794, and Napoleon's 1804 imperial crown in the Louvre.
Crown of Christian IV
The Crown of Christian IV is the oldest surviving Danish royal crown, made in 1595-96 for Christian IV's coronation and displayed in the Treasury at Rosenborg Castle.
Crown of Eric XIV
The Crown of Eric XIV (Erik XIV:s krona) is the royal crown of Sweden, made in 23 carat gold in Stockholm in 1561 for the coronation of King Erik XIV.
Crown of Saint Louis
The Crown of Saint Louis is a 13th-century silver-gilt reliquary crown in the Louvre, given by Louis IX to the Dominican convent of Liège in 1267.
Crown of Saint Wenceslas
The Crown of Saint Wenceslas (Svatováclavská koruna) is the royal crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia, made for Charles IV before 1346 and first worn at his 1347 coronation.
Crown of Scotland
The Crown of Scotland is the coronation crown of the Scottish monarchs, refashioned in its present form in 1540 for James V and displayed at Edinburgh Castle.
Daria-i-Noor
The Daria-i-Noor (دریای نور, "sea of light") is a pale pink diamond of about 182 carats, among the Iranian crown jewels exhibited in Tehran.
David Drake
David Drake, known in his lifetime as Dave the Potter, was an enslaved African American potter and poet in Edgefield, South Carolina, active from about 1801 to the 1870s.
David Vases
The David Vases are a pair of blue-and-white porcelain altar vases dated by inscription to 1351, held in the British Museum's Sir Percival David Collection.
Deccan carpets
Deccan carpets are knotted-pile carpets produced in the Deccan plateau of south-central India, chiefly under the Deccan sultanates from roughly the sixteenth century onward, serving local courts and export markets.
Ding ware
Ding ware (Ding yao) is Chinese white porcelain made at Quyang, Hebei, from the Tang to the Yuan dynasty, and one of the Song dynasty's Five Great Kilns.
Ding Ware Boy Pillow
The Ding ware boy pillow is a white porcelain headrest shaped as a recumbent boy, made at the Ding kilns of China's Northern Song dynasty (960–1127).
Dior Saddle bag
The Dior Saddle bag is a curved, saddle-shaped flap bag designed by John Galliano in 1999 for Dior's spring/summer 2000 collection, halted in 2007, and revived by Maria Grazia Chiuri in 2018; distinct from the Lady Dior by its equestrian asymmetry, D stirrup clasp, and Oblique canvas.
Dominick Labino
Dominick Labino (1910–1987) was an American glass research scientist and artist who, with Harvey Littleton, helped launch the American studio glass movement at the 1962 Toledo workshops.