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Gold crown from Geumgwanchong
The gold crown from Geumgwanchong (금관총 금관) is a 5th-century Silla gold crown, the first ever recovered, unearthed in 1921 at the Geumgwanchong Tomb in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Gongshi
Gongshi (供石), also called guaishi and lingshi, are naturally shaped rocks collected in China as objects of contemplation, known in English as scholars' rocks; collected for over a millennium.
Goryeo celadon
Goryeo celadon (고려청자, 高麗靑瓷) is the Korean stoneware of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), prized for its jade-green bisak glaze and for sanggam inlay, a Korean first.
Goryeo Celadon Dragon-shaped Ewer
The Goryeo Celadon Dragon-shaped Ewer, also called the Celadon Fish Dragon-Shaped Ewer, is a twelfth-century Korean stoneware wine ewer shaped as a dragon-headed fish, National Treasure 61 held by the National Museum of Korea.
Goryeo Celadon Openwork Incense Burner with Seven Treasures Design (National Treasure 95)
The Celadon Openwork Incense Burner with Seven Treasures Design (청자 투각 칠보문 향로) is a 12th-century Goryeo celadon censer, South Korea's National Treasure No. 95.
Granulation (jewellery)
Granulation is a jewelry decoration technique in which minute grains of gold or silver are fused to a surface of the same metal, mastered by Etruscan goldsmiths of the first millennium BCE without visible solder.
Grete Marks
Grete Marks, born Margarete Heymann, was a German-born British ceramicist and painter who founded the Haël Werkstätten near Berlin and fled Nazi persecution for Britain in 1936.
Grill (jewelry)
Grill (jewelry), also called grillz, fronts, or caps: removable decorative tooth covers in gold, silver, or platinum, popularized by 1980s hip-hop and Eddie Plein; costs $20 to thousands, with decay and gum risks.
Han dynasty tomb figurines
Han dynasty tomb figurines (汉代陶俑) are pottery figures placed in Han tombs across China from 202 BCE to 220 CE to accompany and serve the dead in the afterlife.
Henning Koppel
Henning Koppel (1918–1981) was a Danish sculptor and designer whose fluid, organic silverwork for Georg Jensen after World War II helped define Danish design internationally.
Huang Cheng
Huang Cheng (黄成) was a Chinese lacquer master of the late Ming dynasty, active around 1567 to 1572, who wrote the Xiushilu, the only surviving pre-modern Chinese treatise on lacquering.
Hunterston Brooch
The Hunterston Brooch is an early medieval penannular brooch of gilded silver with amber mounts, made around AD 700 and found on the Hunterston estate in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1826.
Imperial Crown of Russia
The Imperial Crown of Russia, formally the Great Imperial Crown, was made in 1762 for Empress Catherine II's coronation and served every Romanov monarch through Nicholas II.
Imperial Glass Factory
The Imperial Glass Company, later the Imperial Glass Corporation, was an American handmade glass manufacturer in Bellaire, Ohio, from 1901 to 1984, best known for its Candlewick and Cape Cod patterns.
Inca ceramic aryballos (urpu)
The Inca ceramic aryballos, called urpu in Quechua, is a globular storage jar for chicha, the most recognizable form of Inca ceramics, made from about 1400 to the 1530s.
Isfahan carpet
An Isfahan carpet is a fine hand-knotted Persian rug woven in or around Isfahan, Iran, which flourished under Safavid Shah ʿAbbās I and was revived as a major export industry by the 1920s.
Itaya Hazan
Itaya Hazan (板谷波山, 1872–1963) was a Japanese ceramic artist, born Kashichi Itaya in Shimodate, Ibaraki Prefecture, a pioneer of modern ceramics who created the hōkō-saiji matte glaze technique.
Iznik tiles
Iznik tiles are underglaze-painted ceramic wall tiles produced in Iznik, western Anatolia, from the 15th to the early 18th century, used to decorate Ottoman mosques, palaces, and tombs.
Jacob Arabo
Jacob Arabo (Yakov Arabov, born 1965, Tashkent) is the Uzbekistan-born founder of Jacob & Co., known as Jacob the Jeweler, who built a hip-hop-driven jewelry empire and moved into high-complication diamond-set watches like the Five Time Zone and Astronomia.
Jean Puiforcat
Jean Puiforcat (Jean Élysée Puiforcat, 1897–1945) was a French silversmith and designer, the defining French silversmith of the Art Deco period, known for geometric sterling silver.
Jennifer Meyer
Jennifer Meyer is an American fine jewelry designer who founded her eponymous Los Angeles brand in 2005; self-taught, known for 18k gold leaf motifs, Good Luck necklaces, 2012 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund runner-up, fragrance since 2022.
Jiading bamboo carving
Jiading bamboo carving (嘉定竹刻) is a Chinese craft tradition founded by Zhu He in Jiading, now a Shanghai district, that became one of two great bamboo carving schools.
Jingdezhen porcelain
Jingdezhen porcelain (景德镇瓷器) is the high-fired porcelain made at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, China, whose kilns have run for a millennium and led world porcelain production from the 16th century.
Joseon blue-and-white porcelain
Joseon blue-and-white porcelain (cheonghwa baekja, 청화백자) is Korean white porcelain decorated with cobalt underglaze, produced at official kilns for the royal court from the mid-15th century.
Joseon dragon jar
The Joseon dragon jar is a Korean white porcelain jar, made from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries and painted with a dragon chasing a flaming jewel, used in royal rituals.
Joseon white porcelain
Joseon white porcelain (조선백자, baekja) is the white ceramic produced in Korea during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), which became the country's most popular ceramic type.
Joseon White Porcelain Jar with Dragon Design
A Joseon white porcelain jar with dragon design, commonly called a dragon jar, is a Korean jar of the Joseon dynasty painted with a dragon in underglaze cobalt blue or iron-brown.
Jun ware
Jun ware (钧窑) is a Chinese stoneware from the late Northern Song to early Ming dynasty, made in Yuzhou, Henan, and known for opalescent blue glazes.
June Schwarcz
June Schwarcz (1918–2015) was an American enamelist in Sausalito, California, who made over 2,500 works, building sculptural copper foil vessels hardened in an electroplating tank.
Kakiemon
Kakiemon (柿右衛門) is the hereditary name of a family of Arita potters in Japan, active since the 17th century, known for red-decorated overglaze enamel porcelain.