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Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop
Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop is a carpentry studio in Teshie, Ghana, founded in the early 1950s by Seth Kane Kwei, inventor of figurative fantasy coffins.
Karl Drerup
Karl Drerup (1904–2000) was a German-American painter and enamelist, a leader of the mid-century American enameling revival known for Limoges-style painted enamels of landscapes and working people.
Katō Tokurō
Katō Tokurō (加藤唐九郎), born Kanō Shōkūrō, was a Japanese ceramic artist from Seto, Aichi, who re-created the Shino and Oribe tea wares of the Momoyama period and surveyed old kiln sites.
Khokhloma
Khokhloma (Хохлома) is a Russian folk craft of painting and lacquering wooden tableware in red, black, and gold, arising in the second half of the 17th century near Nizhny Novgorod.
Khorasan school of metalwork
The Khorasan school of metalwork produced bronze and brass wares inlaid with silver, copper, or gold in eastern Iran, mainly at Herat, until the Mongol invasion of 1219.
Kilim motifs
Kilim motifs are the geometric patterns of kilim (gelim) flat-woven tapestry rugs of Anatolia, Iran, the Balkans, and Central Asia. Slit-weave technique limits designs to triangles, diamonds, and stepped forms; named motifs like çengel and elibelinde carry regionally varying meanings.
Kinkō
Kinkō (金工) is the Japanese art of metalwork, covering casting, forging, and chased decoration; in the sword world it denotes the maker of sword fittings such as the tsuba.
Kitaōji Rosanjin
Kitaōji Rosanjin (北大路魯山人, born Fusajirō, 1883–1959) was a Japanese ceramicist, calligrapher, and restaurateur, chef of Hoshigaoka Saryō in Tokyo, who turned to pottery, holding that tableware is the kimono of cuisine.
Kizaemon Ido tea bowl
The Kizaemon Ido (喜左衛門井戸) is a 16th-century Korean ōido tea bowl, the only Korean tea bowl made a National Treasure, now kept at Kōhōan in Kyoto.
Klaus Moje
Klaus Moje (1936–2016) was a German-born glass artist, founding head of the Glass Workshop at the Canberra School of Art and a pioneer of kiln-formed mosaic glass.
Kōami school
The Kōami school (幸阿弥家) was a hereditary Japanese lineage of maki-e lacquer artists serving as official maki-e masters from the Muromachi period through the Edo period.
Kōrin Maki-e Box
The Kōrin Maki-e Box (光琳蒔絵硯箱) is a lacquer writing box by the Edo-period artist Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716), combining gold maki-e with mother-of-pearl and lead inlay.
Kündekari
Kündekari (kündekârî; Ottoman Turkish كنده كارى) is an Islamic decorative joinery technique in which small geometric wooden pieces interlock without nails or glue, used on mosque doors and minbars.
Kutani ware
Kutani ware (九谷焼, Kutani-yaki) is a Japanese overglaze-enamel porcelain first fired around 1655 in Kutani village, southern Ishikawa Prefecture, known for bold decoration in green, yellow, red, purple, and blue.
Liao gilt-bronze crown and mask set
The Liao gilt-bronze crown and mask set is the metal funeral crown and face mask buried on Khitan nobles of the Liao dynasty (916–1125), best known from the Princess of Chen's tomb.
Lilies of the Valley Egg
The Lilies of the Valley Egg is an 1898 Fabergé Imperial Easter egg, a rose-pink enameled gift from Tsar Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
Limoges enamel
Limoges enamel is enamel on metal, mostly gilded copper, made in Limoges, France, from the late twelfth century; its champlevé and painted plaques spread across Europe.
Longquan celadon
Longquan celadon (龙泉青瓷) is a green-glazed stoneware produced since the Song dynasty at kilns in Longquan, Zhejiang, China, celebrated for jade-like powder blue and plum green glazes.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), American Art Nouveau designer and son of Tiffany & Co.'s founder, known for Favrile iridescent glass, leaded-glass windows and lamps, Corona glasshouse, and Laurelton Hall.
Lusterware
Lusterware is ceramic with an iridescent metallic sheen, made by a second low-temperature firing; invented in Iraq around the 9th century and perfected at Kashan, Iran.
Lycurgus Cup
The Lycurgus Cup is a fourth-century Roman glass cage cup, held by the British Museum, that appears jade-green in reflected light and ruby-red when light shines through it.
Magdalene Odundo
Magdalene Anyango Namakhiva Odundo (born 1950, Nairobi) is a Kenyan-born British ceramicist known for hand-built, burnished, unglazed vessels whose forms evoke the human body; she was made a Dame in 2020.
Mamluk enamelled glass
Mamluk enamelled glass is luxury glassware decorated with enamel paints and gold, made in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluk sultanate, best known for mosque lamps of the fourteenth century.
Mamluk metalwork
Mamluk metalwork is silver- and gold-inlaid brass and bronze produced under the Mamluk sultans, mainly in Cairo and Damascus, from about 1250 until the Ottoman conquest of 1517.
Mamluk mosque lamps
Mamluk mosque lamps are enameled and gilded glass hanging lamps made in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Sultanate to light mosques, and are among the most celebrated works of Islamic glassmaking.
Margaret De Patta
Margaret De Patta, born Margaret Strong (1903–1964), was an American modernist jewelry designer in San Francisco known for her optical 'opticut' stones and sculpture-like pieces.
Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez (Po've'ka), a Tewa potter of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, and her husband Julian created the black-on-black pottery style, making her one of the most recognized Native American artists.
Mashiko ware
Mashiko ware (益子焼, Mashiko-yaki) is Japanese pottery made in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, transformed from everyday vessels into a nationally known craft after Hamada Shoji settled there in 1924.
Matsuda Gonroku
Matsuda Gonroku (松田権六, 1896–1986) was a Japanese lacquer artist and maki-e master, the first Living National Treasure for maki-e, who received the Order of Culture in 1976.
Mawangdui lacquered coffins
The Mawangdui lacquered coffins (马王堆漆棺) are nested painted burial coffins from three Western Han tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan, excavated 1972 to 1974, most famously the four enclosing Lady Dai.