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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.
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire (1757–1811) was an American architect, woodcarver, and furniture maker who worked almost entirely in Salem, Massachusetts, and shaped its Federal-style houses and carved ornament.
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.
Seoul Fashion Week (서울패션위크)
Seoul Fashion Week (서울패션위크) is a biannual fashion business event held each March and October at Seoul's Dongdaemun Design Plaza, hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.
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.
Shaynna Blaze
Shaynna Blaze (also Shaynna Blaze-Vaughan) is an Australian interior designer and TV personality, judge on The Block since 2012 and co-presenter of Selling Houses Australia (2008-2022), author, Celebrity Apprentice 2021 winner, and Voice of Change charity founder.
Shin Jae-eun (신재은)
Shin Jae-eun (신재은, @zennyrt) is a South Korean Instagram model and influencer, born 1998 in Seoul, whose August 2018 Maxim Korea cover launched a modeling career; she is the 3D body-scan model for Eve in Shift Up's game Stellar Blade.
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.
Sophia Sinot
Sophia Sinot is a Dutch (Huizen-born), London-based makeup artist, #218 on FashionDB, known for hyperfeminine, viral maximalist glam for Zara Larsson's Midnight Sun tour, Doja Cat's latex lips, the JT-lip look, SZA's 2026 Met Gala makeup, and clients including Doja Cat, Camila Cabello, and KATSEYE.
Sovereign's Orb
The Sovereign's Orb is a hollow golden globe surmounted by a cross, made in 1661 for Charles II's coronation and kept with the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.
Sp5der
Sp5der (SP5DER, formerly Spider Worldwide) is an American streetwear brand founded in 2019 in Atlanta by rapper Young Thug, owned via King Spider LLC, known for spider-web graphics, rhinestone hoodies, limited drops, and its 2021 SP5DER trademark.
Staffordshire figures
Staffordshire figures are cheap press-molded earthenware pottery figures made in the Staffordshire Potteries of England from the 18th century into the 20th, peaking in the Victorian era.
Stained glass
Stained glass: colored glass, usually leaded and often painted and fired, seen in transmitted light; peaked in Europe 1150–1500; covers materials, history, conservation, lead exposure, Notre-Dame debate.
Stella Maxwell
Stella Maxwell (born 1991, Belgium) is a Belgian-born, New Zealand-raised fashion model, a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2015, known for Chanel and Versace runway work, Max Factor and Calvin Klein campaigns, and LGBTQIA+ advocacy.
Stephanie Seymour
Stephanie Seymour (Stephanie Michelle Seymour), born 1968 in San Diego, is an American supermodel of the 1990s: original Victoria's Secret Angel, Alaïa and Avedon muse, Estée Lauder spokesmodel, and 2019 Versace runway closer.
Sterling St. Jacques
Sterling St. Jacques (Sterling Saint Jacques, reportedly Sterling Colter) was an American model, dancer, singer, and actor, regarded as the first Black male supermodel; he walked at Versailles 1973, modeled for Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, and Halston, and was a Studio 54 fixture.
Storyteller figure
A storyteller figure is a Pueblo pottery figurine of a seated adult with open mouth and closed eyes, surrounded by attached children, invented in 1964 by Cochiti potter Helen Cordero.
Suaire de Saint-Josse
The Suaire de Saint-Josse (Shroud of Saint Josse) is a fragmentary 10th-century silk samit bearing a Kufic Arabic dedication, found in 1920 and now in the Louvre.