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Maya jadeite mosaic
A Maya jadeite mosaic is a funerary mask made of many small fitted jadeite tiles, placed over the faces of deceased Maya rulers to transform them into the maize god.
Meat-shaped Stone
The Meat-shaped Stone (肉形石) is a Qing dynasty carved curio in Taipei's National Palace Museum, a layered jasper dyed to resemble braised Dongpo pork belly.
Medallion carpet
A medallion carpet is a knotted-pile carpet whose field centers on a medallion (Persian toranj), typically balanced by corner quarter-medallions; it reached its classic form in 16th-century Safavid Iran.
Meissen Monkey Band
The Meissen Monkey Band, also sold as the Monkey Orchestra (Affenkapelle), is a set of 21 porcelain monkey musician figurines first modeled at Meissen in 1753 by Johann Joachim Kändler.
Michael Blümelhuber
Michael Blümelhuber (1865–1936) was an Austrian steel cutter and sculptor in Steyr who turned steel cutting into an art form, best known for the 1924 Linzer Domschlüssel.
Ming dynasty blue-and-white porcelain
Ming dynasty blue-and-white porcelain (明代青花瓷) is Chinese porcelain of 1368 to 1644 painted with cobalt under a transparent glaze and fired once, made chiefly at Jingdezhen and exported worldwide.
Mise ware
Mise ware (秘色瓷, "secret color porcelain") is the top grade of Yue kiln celadon, made as imperial tribute ware from the late Tang into the early Northern Song.
Mixtec goldwork
Mixtec goldwork is the pre-Hispanic goldworking tradition of the Mixtec people of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, which flourished during the Postclassic period and produced most surviving Mesoamerican gold objects.
Mold Gold Cape
The Mold Gold Cape is a Bronze Age ceremonial cape of beaten sheet gold found near Mold, Wales, in 1833 and now held by the British Museum.
Monomakh's Cap
Monomakh's Cap (Шапка Мономаха) is a gold, jewel-encrusted ceremonial cap trimmed with sable that crowned Russia's grand princes and tsars from 1498 until 1682, kept in the Moscow Kremlin.
Montezuma's headdress
Montezuma's headdress, also called the Penacho de Moctezuma, is a sixteenth-century Mexica featherwork headdress of quetzal feathers and gold, held in Vienna's Weltmuseum Wien; its Moctezuma attribution cannot be confirmed.
Moon jar
The Joseon white porcelain moon jar (달항아리, dalhangari) is a large, globular, unadorned white porcelain jar made in Korea during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), named for its resemblance to a full moon.
Moroccan zellige and carved plaster workshops of Fez
The Moroccan zellige and carved plaster workshops of Fez produce zellige, hand-cut glazed tile mosaics, and gebs, carved plasterwork, crafts Fez has kept since medieval times.
Mortlake Tapestry Works
The Mortlake Tapestry Works was an English tapestry manufactory established in 1619 at Mortlake, southwest of London, under James I and directed by Sir Francis Crane until 1703.
Mosaic
Mosaic: art of assembling small tesserae of glass, stone, or ceramic into images or patterns, from ancient pavements to Roman micromosaic jewelry; covers tesserae, gold-leaf glass tesserae, pietra dura, and conservation.
Mughal carpets
Mughal carpets are the pile carpets produced for the Mughal court of India from the mid-sixteenth century onward, chiefly in imperial workshops at Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, and Lahore.
Mughal jade wine cup
A Mughal jade wine cup is a small drinking vessel carved from nephrite jade at the Mughal imperial workshops, chiefly for emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and often inscribed with Persian verses.
Nabeshima ware
Nabeshima ware (鍋島焼) is Japanese porcelain made at the Saga domain's official kiln, produced as presentation gifts for the Tokugawa shogunate rather than for sale.
Namikawa Yasuyuki
Namikawa Yasuyuki (並河靖之, 1845–1927) was a Japanese cloisonné artist in Kyoto known for fine gold and silver wirework on translucent black enamel, appointed an Imperial Craftsman in 1896.
Newar metalwork
Newar metalwork is the metalcraft tradition of the Newar people of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, centered on Patan and known for lost-wax casting, repoussé, and fire-gilding.
Oribe ware
Oribe ware (Oribe-yaki) is a Japanese stoneware produced in Mino, Gifu Prefecture, from about 1600 to the 1630s, known for its copper-green glaze and deliberately distorted forms.
Otto Künzli
Otto Künzli, born 1948 in Zürich, is a Swiss conceptual jeweler in Munich, best known for the 1980 bracelet Gold Macht Blind (Gold Makes You Blind).
Ottoman textiles
Ottoman textiles are the woven fabrics, embroideries, and carpets of the Ottoman Empire from the 14th century to 1922, centered on court silk brocades and velvets woven chiefly in Bursa.
Oxus Treasure
The Oxus Treasure is a hoard of about 180 gold and silver objects from Achaemenid Persia, found near the River Oxus around 1877–1880 and held mostly in the British Museum.
Paracas Textile
The Paracas Textile is a Nasca ceremonial mantle of about 100–300 C.E., held by the Brooklyn Museum since 1938, with a border of ninety three-dimensional figures.
Pei Shimin
Pei Shimin, also known as Pei Deming, was a Chinese master of Yixing zisha pottery, famed for restoring the Gongchun teapot and called "Second Chen Mingyuan".
Peking glass
Peking glass is the glass produced by the imperial glasshouse founded in 1696 in the Qing court's Imperial Workshops in Beijing, and later Chinese glassware made in its style.
Persian tilework
Persian tilework is the architectural use of glazed ceramic tiles on Iranian buildings, practiced from the thirteenth century BC through mosaic faience, luster, and haft-rang techniques.
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920), Russian jeweler of Huguenot descent, headed the House of Fabergé in Saint Petersburg, created the fifty Imperial Easter Eggs for the Romanovs, held court jeweler titles from Russia, Britain, Sweden-Norway, and Siam, and fled revolutionary Russia in 1918.
Pietra dura
Pietra dura, in Italy also called commesso, is a decorative technique in which shaped colored stones are fitted into a stone backing to form pictorial designs.