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Priam's Treasure
Priam's Treasure is a hoard of gold, silver, and copper objects uncovered by Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlık, the site of ancient Troy, in 1873, now held in Moscow.
Qajar tilework
Qajar tilework is the polychrome ceramic tile decoration produced in Iran during the Qajar dynasty (1779–1924), used on mosques, palaces, and city gates and increasingly shaped by European motifs through the nineteenth century.
Qianlong jade carving
Qianlong jade carving (乾隆玉雕) is the Qing court's jade production during the Qianlong Emperor's reign, 1735 to 1796, considered the most glorious period of Chinese jade carving.
Quilling
Quilling, or paper filigree, is the craft of rolling narrow paper strips into coils and shapes to form decorative designs. Originating with 15th-century French and Italian religious orders imitating metal filigree, it became an 18th-century English pastime and survives through guilds and contemporary artists.
Quillwork
Quillwork is an embroidery art of North American Indigenous peoples in which dyed porcupine quills are stitched onto hide, birchbark, or fabric, historically practiced almost exclusively by women.
Rangoli (रंगोली)
Rangoli (रंगोली), also called alpana, kolam, muggu, or mandana, is the traditional Indian art of drawing decorative floor patterns with coloured powders, rice paste, and petals for festivals, rituals, and daily practice across India's regions.
Renaissance Egg
The Renaissance Egg is an 1894 Imperial Fabergé Easter egg that Tsar Alexander III gave to Empress Maria Feodorovna, now in the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg.
René Lalique
René Lalique (1860–1945) was a French jeweler and glassmaker, celebrated for Art Nouveau jewelry and, after 1912, Art Deco glass, including perfume bottles for François Coty.
Rosebud Egg
The Rosebud Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg made in 1895, when Tsar Nicholas II gave it to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna as her first Easter egg.
Rothschild Egg
The Rothschild Egg is a jewelled 1902 Fabergé egg with a clock and automaton cockerel, made by Michael Perkhin as an engagement gift for Germaine Halphen.
Royal Gold Cup
The Royal Gold Cup, also called the Saint Agnes Cup, is a solid gold hanap enameled with scenes from the life of Saint Agnes, made in France in the late 14th century.
Ru ware
Ru ware (汝窑) is a Song dynasty Chinese celadon made for the Northern Song imperial court in the early 12th century, prized for its sky-blue glaze and rarity.
Şadırvan
A şadırvan is a domed or canopied water structure built in a mosque courtyard for ritual ablution, with taps around a central pool; it forms an integral part of Ottoman mosque architecture.
Safavid figural tilework panels
Safavid figural tilework panels are large compositions of painted stonepaste tiles made in seventeenth-century Iran, chiefly Isfahan, depicting figures, animals, and garden scenes in palace pavilions.
Safavid hunting carpet
A Safavid hunting carpet is a knotted-pile Persian court carpet of the 16th century, filled with mounted hunters, animals in combat, and flowering plants around a central medallion.
Safavid silk textiles
Safavid silk textiles are the silks, velvets, and silk carpets produced in Iran under the Safavid dynasty from 1501 to 1722, the high point of Iranian loom weaving.
Sambalpuri ikat
Sambalpuri ikat, locally known as Bandha, is a handwoven textile tradition from western Odisha, India, where yarn is tie-dyed before weaving, best known for its sarees.
Sapi-Portuguese ivories
Sapi-Portuguese ivories are carved ivory saltcellars, horns, and spoons made by Sapi artists in Sierra Leone in the late 15th and 16th centuries for Portuguese buyers.
Sasanian silverware
Sasanian silverware is the body of luxury silver and silver-gilt vessels made in Iran and nearby lands under the Sasanian dynasty (224–651), its most famous pieces showing the king hunting on horseback.
Sassanian intaglio seals
Sassanian intaglio seals are small semiprecious-stone stamp seals of the Sasanian Empire of Iran (224–651 CE), carved in intaglio and used as personal signatures and administrative instruments.
Schwarzenberg Carpet
The Schwarzenberg carpet is a large 16th-century Safavid Persian carpet, named for the Austrian family that once owned it, now in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha.
Scythian goldwork
Scythian goldwork is the gold jewelry, weapon decoration, and horse trappings made for the nomadic Scythians of the Eurasian steppe, chiefly between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE.
Seljuk brickwork
Seljuk brickwork is the tradition of structural and decorative baked-brick masonry developed under the Seljuk Turks in Iran and selectively in Anatolia, 11th to 13th centuries.
Sèvres porcelain
Sèvres porcelain is made by the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, founded in 1740 at Vincennes and moved to Sèvres in 1756, Europe's leading porcelain maker by the later 1700s.
Shah Diamond
The Shah Diamond is an 88.7-carat yellowish-brown Indian diamond bearing three Persian inscriptions of its owners, presented to Tsar Nicholas I in 1829 and now held in the Kremlin's Diamond Fund in Moscow.
Shah Jahan on the Peacock Throne
Shah Jahan on the Peacock Throne is a Mughal miniature of about 1635, attributed to the imperial painter Govardhan, showing Shah Jahan on his jeweled golden throne.
Shino ware
Shino ware (志野焼) is a Japanese pottery from Mino, Gifu Prefecture, made from the late 16th century and known for its thick, milky-white feldspar glaze.
Shrine of the Three Kings
The Shrine of the Three Kings (Dreikönigenschrein) is a gilded reliquary in Cologne Cathedral holding bones venerated since the twelfth century as those of the Biblical Magi.
Sion Treasure
The Sion Treasure is a hoard of 57 sixth-century Byzantine silver liturgical vessels found illegally in 1963 near Kumluca, Turkey, and now split across five collections.
Skipper (Barbie)
Skipper (Skipper Roberts) is Mattel's Barbie doll little sister, introduced 1964 as Barbie's first family member, aged eight at debut. Known for six vintage versions, the controversial 1975 Growing Up Skipper, and the current Skipper Babysitters Inc. teen babysitter playline.