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Doucai
Doucai is a Chinese porcelain decoration technique combining underglaze cobalt blue outlines with overglaze enamels, fired twice; created at Jingdezhen in the Xuande reign and reaching its peak under the Chenghua emperor.
Dresden Green Diamond
The Dresden Green Diamond is a 41-carat natural green diamond, the largest known, with color evenly distributed through the stone, set in a hat ornament in Dresden's Green Vault since the 18th century.
Dushan Great Jade Sea
The Dushan Great Jade Sea (渎山大玉海), also called the Jade Urn, is a giant jade wine vessel made for Kublai Khan and completed in 1265, the largest surviving ancient jade object in China.
Earring
An earring is a piece of jewelry worn through a pierced opening in the ear or attached with a clip, worn on the earlobe or cartilage.
Edgar Brandt
Edgar Brandt (1880–1960) was a French wrought-iron craftsman and designer, a defining figure of Art Deco ironwork, known for the Louvre's Escalier Mollien railing and the Arc de Triomphe's Eternal Flame vessel.
Elsa Peretti
Elsa Peretti (1940-2021), Italian jewelry designer for Tiffany & Co. from 1974; creator of the Bone cuff, Bean, Open Heart, and Diamonds by the Yard; founder of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, her universal heir.
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (1846–1904) was a French glassmaker, ceramist, and furniture designer based in Nancy, a leading initiator of Art Nouveau who founded the École de Nancy.
Emperor's Carpet
The Emperor's Carpet is a large Safavid Persian carpet of the second half of the 16th century, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1943.
Esquiline Treasure
The Esquiline Treasure is a collection of Late Roman silver discovered in 1793 at the foot of the Esquiline Hill in Rome and held by the British Museum.
Fabergé egg
The Fabergé egg, or Imperial Easter Egg, is a jeweled Easter egg made by Peter Carl Fabergé's Saint Petersburg firm for the Russian tsars from 1885.
Famille rose
Famille rose, or fencai (粉彩), meaning "soft color," is a type of Chinese overglaze-enamelled porcelain developed at Jingdezhen in the late Kangxi period and peaked under the Yongzheng emperor.
Famille verte
Famille verte, French for "green family," is Chinese porcelain decorated with overglaze enamels dominated by bright translucent green, made at Jingdezhen during the Kangxi period from about 1685 to 1725.
Fire-gilding
Fire-gilding, also called mercury or amalgam gilding, applies a gold-mercury paste to metal and heats it so the mercury evaporates, leaving a bonded gold layer.
First Hen Egg
The First Hen Egg, also called the Hen Egg, is a jeweled Easter egg made by Fabergé in Saint Petersburg in 1885 as the first of the Imperial Fabergé eggs.
Frankenthal porcelain
Frankenthal porcelain is hard-paste porcelain made in Frankenthal, Palatinate, from 1755 to 1800, founded by Paul Anton Hannong and later a state manufactory under Elector Carl Theodor.
Freer Canteen
The Freer Canteen is a mid-13th-century Ayyubid brass canteen with silver inlay, made in Syria or northern Iraq and held at the Freer Gallery in Washington.
Fujiwara Kei
Fujiwara Kei (藤原啓), real name Keiji, was a Japanese ceramicist of Bizen ware who became a Living National Treasure in 1970, known for the plain style called Kei Bizen.
Fukumi Shimura
Fukumi Shimura (志村ふくみ, born 1924) is a Japanese dyeing-and-weaving artist who weaves kimonos from plant-dyed tsumugi silk, certified a Living National Treasure in 1990 and known for her Tale of Genji series.
Fuller Brooch
The Fuller Brooch is a late ninth-century Anglo-Saxon silver and niello disc brooch in the British Museum, the earliest English depiction of the Five Senses.
Gallé glass
Gallé glass is the Art Nouveau art glass of French designer Émile Gallé (1846–1904) of Nancy, made in layered cameo-cut glass decorated with botanical and insect subjects.
Garden carpet
A garden carpet is a Persian carpet showing a formal walled garden in bird's-eye view, with canals, pools, trees, and a pavilion, its classic form set under the Safavid dynasty.
Ge ware
Ge ware (哥窑) is a rare Chinese crackle-glazed celadon counted among the Five Great Kilns of the Song dynasty, known for its "golden threads and iron wires" crackle.
Gemma Augustea
The Gemma Augustea is a large Roman cameo cut from two-layered sardonyx, made around 9–12 AD, glorifying Emperor Augustus and Tiberius, and held in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Georg Jensen
Georg Jensen, born Georg Arthur Jensen (1866–1935), was a Danish silversmith and sculptor who founded his Copenhagen silversmithy in 1904, a defining name in Scandinavian silver.
Georg Jensen silver
Georg Jensen silver is the silverware, hollowware, and jewelry of the Danish silversmithy founded by sculptor Georg Jensen in Copenhagen in 1904, a defining body of Scandinavian design.
Gerda Flöckinger
Gerda Flöckinger, born 1927 in Innsbruck, is an Austrian-born jeweler working in London who pioneered British contemporary studio jewelry and showed at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Gloucester Candlestick
The Gloucester Candlestick is a twelfth-century English cast-metal altar candlestick made for St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester between 1107 and 1113, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Gobelins Manufactory
The Gobelins Manufactory (Manufacture des Gobelins) is the French national tapestry workshop in Paris, founded by royal purchase in 1662 and named for the Gobelin family of dyers.
Gold Belt of Silla
The Gold Belt of Silla (대장식) is a pure-gold waist belt buried with Silla royalty in fifth- and sixth-century tombs at Gyeongju, reserved for the royal family.
Gold crown from Cheonmachong
The Gold Crown of Silla (Cheonmachong) is a sixth-century Silla gold crown excavated in 1973 from a royal tomb in Gyeongju and designated National Treasure No. 188.