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Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames: American husband-and-wife design partnership (Eames Office) behind molded plywood furniture, the Eames Lounge Chair, Case Study House No. 8, and Powers of Ten; active 1941–1978.
Charlotte Perriand
Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999) was a French architect and designer, born in Paris, whose tubular steel chairs of 1928 and modular wooden furniture helped define twentieth-century modern interiors.
Chavín goldwork
Chavín goldwork is the hammered sheet-gold ornament production of ancient Peru's Chavín culture, roughly 900 to 200 BCE, and the first sophisticated metalwork in South America.
Cheapside Hoard
The Cheapside Hoard is a cache of nearly 500 Elizabethan and Jacobean jewels found in a Cheapside cellar in 1912, almost all held by the London Museum.
Chen Mingyuan
Chen Mingyuan (陈鸣远) was a Chinese Yixing stoneware potter active under the Kangxi and Yongzheng reigns of the Qing dynasty, regarded as the most eminent Yixing potter after Shi Dabin.
Cheryl Tiegs
Cheryl Tiegs (born 1947, Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an American model and entrepreneur, widely called America's first supermodel, with Sports Illustrated swimsuit covers in 1970, 1975, and 1983, a 1978 pink-bikini poster icon, a 1978 Time cover, and a Sears clothing line.
Cheyenne Brando
Cheyenne Brando, born Tarita Cheyenne Brando, was a French Polynesian model and daughter of Marlon Brando and Tarita Teriipaia, who died by suicide in 1995 at 25.
Chicken Cup
The Chicken Cup (鬥彩雞缸杯) is a small doucai porcelain wine cup painted with chickens, made at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen during the Ming dynasty's Chenghua reign (1465–1487).
Chilkat Blanket Designs
Chilkat blanket designs, called Naaxiin by the Tlingit, are crest compositions woven into fringed ceremonial robes of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Chimú tapestry and painted textiles
Chimú tapestry and painted textiles are woven and painted cloths made by the Chimú culture of Peru's north coast, centered at Chan Chan, from about 900 to 1470.
Chinese cloisonné
Chinese cloisonné (jingtailan) is a decorative art in which copper wires form patterns on metal vessels, with cells filled with colored enamel, introduced from the Islamic world during the Yuan dynasty and matured under the Ming.
Chippendale style
The Chippendale style is English mid-eighteenth-century furniture named for cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, defined by his 1754 book blending Gothic, Chinese, and French Rococo motifs in carved mahogany.
Choker
Choker: a necklace worn tightly around the neck, typically under 14–16 inches. Known also as colliers de chien; worn since Sumerian times around 2500 BC as amulets, popularized by Alexandra of Denmark, revived in 1990s grunge.
Christopher Ciccone
Christopher Ciccone (1960-2024), American artist, dancer, and interior designer, younger brother of Madonna; art director of Blond Ambition, tour director of The Girlie Show, author of the 2008 bestselling memoir Life with My Sister Madonna.
Christopher Dresser
Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) was a Scottish designer and botanist, widely regarded as Britain's first independent industrial designer, who produced thousands of designs for metalwork, ceramics, furniture, textiles, and wallpapers, and embraced machine production.
Cizhou ware
Cizhou ware (磁州窯) is a non-imperial Chinese stoneware from kilns in Hebei, named for the Song prefecture of Cizhou and known for black-painted decoration on white slip.
Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer (born 1970, Rheinberg, West Germany) is a German supermodel discovered in a Düsseldorf disco in 1987, famous for the 1989 Guess campaign, as Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel muse, the 1992 Revlon contract, and 1990s supermodel-era fame.
Coptic textiles
Coptic textiles are the decorated woven fabrics of Egypt from roughly the 3rd to the 12th century, tapestry work on linen preserved in dry burials.
Coromandel screen
A Coromandel screen is a large Chinese folding screen made with kuancai lacquer, carved and filled with colored pigments, exported to Europe via India's Coromandel coast.
Coronation Egg
The Coronation Egg is an 1897 Imperial Fabergé egg made in Saint Petersburg, gifted by Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, with a miniature coronation carriage inside.
Coronation Spoon
The Coronation Spoon is a 12th-century silver-gilt spoon that holds holy oil during the anointing of the British sovereign, and the only medieval item of regalia to survive.
Crayola
Crayola, the American art-supplies brand of Hallmark-owned Crayola LLC (founded 1885 as Binney & Smith), has made non-toxic wax crayons since 1903, when the first eight-crayon box sold for a nickel.
Cross of Cong
The Cross of Cong is an Irish processional reliquary cross made in 1123 to hold a relic of the True Cross, now in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Crown of Charlemagne
The Crown of Charlemagne is the name of two French regalia: the medieval coronation crown melted down in 1794, and Napoleon's 1804 imperial crown in the Louvre.
Crown of Christian IV
The Crown of Christian IV is the oldest surviving Danish royal crown, made in 1595-96 for Christian IV's coronation and displayed in the Treasury at Rosenborg Castle.
Crown of Eric XIV
The Crown of Eric XIV (Erik XIV:s krona) is the royal crown of Sweden, made in 23 carat gold in Stockholm in 1561 for the coronation of King Erik XIV.
Crown of Saint Louis
The Crown of Saint Louis is a 13th-century silver-gilt reliquary crown in the Louvre, given by Louis IX to the Dominican convent of Liège in 1267.
Crown of Saint Wenceslas
The Crown of Saint Wenceslas (Svatováclavská koruna) is the royal crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia, made for Charles IV before 1346 and first worn at his 1347 coronation.
Crown of Scotland
The Crown of Scotland is the coronation crown of the Scottish monarchs, refashioned in its present form in 1540 for James V and displayed at Edinburgh Castle.
Crystal Hefner
Crystal Hefner (Crystal M. Harris, born 1986) is an American model and memoirist, third wife of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (married 2012, widowed 2017), author of the 2024 New York Times bestselling memoir Only Say Good Things; later a California and Hawaii real estate agent.