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Gerda Flöckinger
Gerda Flöckinger, born 1927 in Innsbruck, is an Austrian-born jeweler working in London who pioneered British contemporary studio jewelry and showed at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Gigi Hadid
Gigi Hadid (Jelena Noura Hadid, born 1995) is an American supermodel of Dutch and Palestinian descent, IMG-signed since 2013, with 35+ Vogue covers, Victoria's Secret shows, and her knitwear brand Guest in Residence.
Gio Ponti
Gio Ponti (Giovanni Ponti, 1891–1979) was an Italian architect, designer, and publisher who founded the magazine Domus and designed Milan's Pirelli Tower and the Superleggera chair.
Gloucester Candlestick
The Gloucester Candlestick is a twelfth-century English cast-metal altar candlestick made for St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester between 1107 and 1113, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Gobelins Manufactory
The Gobelins Manufactory (Manufacture des Gobelins) is the French national tapestry workshop in Paris, founded by royal purchase in 1662 and named for the Gobelin family of dyers.
Gold Belt of Silla
The Gold Belt of Silla (대장식) is a pure-gold waist belt buried with Silla royalty in fifth- and sixth-century tombs at Gyeongju, reserved for the royal family.
Gold crown from Cheonmachong
The Gold Crown of Silla (Cheonmachong) is a sixth-century Silla gold crown excavated in 1973 from a royal tomb in Gyeongju and designated National Treasure No. 188.
Gold crown from Geumgwanchong
The gold crown from Geumgwanchong (금관총 금관) is a 5th-century Silla gold crown, the first ever recovered, unearthed in 1921 at the Geumgwanchong Tomb in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Gongshi
Gongshi (供石), also called guaishi and lingshi, are naturally shaped rocks collected in China as objects of contemplation, known in English as scholars' rocks; collected for over a millennium.
Goryeo celadon
Goryeo celadon (고려청자, 高麗靑瓷) is the Korean stoneware of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), prized for its jade-green bisak glaze and for sanggam inlay, a Korean first.
Goryeo Celadon Dragon-shaped Ewer
The Goryeo Celadon Dragon-shaped Ewer, also called the Celadon Fish Dragon-Shaped Ewer, is a twelfth-century Korean stoneware wine ewer shaped as a dragon-headed fish, National Treasure 61 held by the National Museum of Korea.
Goryeo Celadon Openwork Incense Burner with Seven Treasures Design (National Treasure 95)
The Celadon Openwork Incense Burner with Seven Treasures Design (청자 투각 칠보문 향로) is a 12th-century Goryeo celadon censer, South Korea's National Treasure No. 95.
Granulation (jewellery)
Granulation is a jewelry decoration technique in which minute grains of gold or silver are fused to a surface of the same metal, mastered by Etruscan goldsmiths of the first millennium BCE without visible solder.
Greene & Greene
Greene & Greene was the Pasadena architectural partnership of brothers Charles and Henry Greene, leading builders of the American Craftsman style, known for the 1908 Gamble House.
Grete Marks
Grete Marks, born Margarete Heymann, was a German-born British ceramicist and painter who founded the Haël Werkstätten near Berlin and fled Nazi persecution for Britain in 1936.
Grill (jewelry)
Grill (jewelry), also called grillz, fronts, or caps: removable decorative tooth covers in gold, silver, or platinum, popularized by 1980s hip-hop and Eddie Plein; costs $20 to thousands, with decay and gum risks.
Gucci
Gucci, Italian luxury fashion house founded in Florence in 1921 by Guccio Gucci, a former Savoy hotel porter. Known for the Bamboo 1947 bag, Horsebit 1953 loafer, and GG monogram; owned by Kering since 1999.
Gustav Stickley
Gustav Stickley (1858–1942) was an American furniture designer and publisher who led the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States, known for his Craftsman oak furniture.
Han dynasty tomb figurines
Han dynasty tomb figurines (汉代陶俑) are pottery figures placed in Han tombs across China from 202 BCE to 220 CE to accompany and serve the dead in the afterlife.
Hans Coper
Hans Coper (1920–1981) was a German-born British studio potter who fled Nazi Germany in 1939, worked with Lucie Rie, and made sculptural vessels including candlesticks for Coventry Cathedral in 1962.
Hans Wegner
Hans Jørgensen Wegner (1914–2007) was a Danish furniture designer known as the master of the chair, who created around 500 chairs, including the Wishbone Chair and the Round Chair.
Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard (1867–1942) was a French architect and designer, the leading figure of Art Nouveau in France, best known for the cast-iron entrances he designed for the Paris Métro stations.
Henning Koppel
Henning Koppel (1918–1981) was a Danish sculptor and designer whose fluid, organic silverwork for Georg Jensen after World War II helped define Danish design internationally.
Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss (1904–1972) was an American industrial designer who led a major design consultancy from 1929, designed the Bell System's desk telephones, and pioneered anthropometrics, the systematic use of human body measurements in product design.
Henry van de Velde
Henry van de Velde (Henry Clemens van de Velde, 1863–1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, and designer, a founder of Belgian Art Nouveau whose Weimar school preceded the Bauhaus.
Huang Cheng
Huang Cheng (黄成) was a Chinese lacquer master of the late Ming dynasty, active around 1567 to 1572, who wrote the Xiushilu, the only surviving pre-modern Chinese treatise on lacquering.
Hunterston Brooch
The Hunterston Brooch is an early medieval penannular brooch of gilded silver with amber mounts, made around AD 700 and found on the Hunterston estate in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1826.
Imperial Crown of Russia
The Imperial Crown of Russia, formally the Great Imperial Crown, was made in 1762 for Empress Catherine II's coronation and served every Romanov monarch through Nicholas II.
Imperial Glass Factory
The Imperial Glass Company, later the Imperial Glass Corporation, was an American handmade glass manufacturer in Bellaire, Ohio, from 1901 to 1984, best known for its Candlewick and Cape Cod patterns.
Inca ceramic aryballos (urpu)
The Inca ceramic aryballos, called urpu in Quechua, is a globular storage jar for chicha, the most recognizable form of Inca ceramics, made from about 1400 to the 1530s.