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Limoges enamel
Limoges enamel is enamel on metal, mostly gilded copper, made in Limoges, France, from the late twelfth century; its champlevé and painted plaques spread across Europe.
Longquan celadon
Longquan celadon (龙泉青瓷) is a green-glazed stoneware produced since the Song dynasty at kilns in Longquan, Zhejiang, China, celebrated for jade-like powder blue and plum green glazes.
Lorenzo Rodríguez
Lorenzo Rodríguez, an Andalusia-born architect who died in Mexico City in 1774, designed the Sagrario Metropolitano and moved the estípite from altarpieces onto church facades in New Spain.
Lori Harvey
Lori Harvey is an American model, entrepreneur, and actress, the adopted daughter of Steve Harvey, known for her 2017 Dolce & Gabbana runway debut and her skincare brand SKN by LH.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), American Art Nouveau designer and son of Tiffany & Co.'s founder, known for Favrile iridescent glass, leaded-glass windows and lamps, Corona glasshouse, and Laurelton Hall.
Louis Majorelle
Louis Majorelle (1859–1926) was a French cabinetmaker and decorative artist, a leading Art nouveau furniture designer and, with Émile Gallé, a central figure of the École de Nancy.
Lusterware
Lusterware is ceramic with an iridescent metallic sheen, made by a second low-temperature firing; invented in Iraq around the 9th century and perfected at Kashan, Iran.
Lycurgus Cup
The Lycurgus Cup is a fourth-century Roman glass cage cup, held by the British Museum, that appears jade-green in reflected light and ruby-red when light shines through it.
Magdalene Odundo
Magdalene Anyango Namakhiva Odundo (born 1950, Nairobi) is a Kenyan-born British ceramicist known for hand-built, burnished, unglazed vessels whose forms evoke the human body; she was made a Dame in 2020.
Mahieka Sharma
Mahieka Sharma (माहिका शर्मा), Indian model, actress, and lifestyle creator; Model of the Year (New Age) at the 2024 Indian Fashion Awards; walked for Sabyasachi, Manish Malhotra, and Anamika Khanna; Kama Ayurveda ambassador; partner of cricketer Hardik Pandya.
Mamluk enamelled glass
Mamluk enamelled glass is luxury glassware decorated with enamel paints and gold, made in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluk sultanate, best known for mosque lamps of the fourteenth century.
Mamluk metalwork
Mamluk metalwork is silver- and gold-inlaid brass and bronze produced under the Mamluk sultans, mainly in Cairo and Damascus, from about 1250 until the Ottoman conquest of 1517.
Mamluk mosque lamps
Mamluk mosque lamps are enameled and gilded glass hanging lamps made in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Sultanate to light mosques, and are among the most celebrated works of Islamic glassmaking.
Margaret De Patta
Margaret De Patta, born Margaret Strong (1903–1964), was an American modernist jewelry designer in San Francisco known for her optical 'opticut' stones and sculpture-like pieces.
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864–1933) was a Scottish artist and designer, a founding member of "The Four" whose gesso panels helped define the Glasgow Style of Art Nouveau.
Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez (Po've'ka), a Tewa potter of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, and her husband Julian created the black-on-black pottery style, making her one of the most recognized Native American artists.
Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt, born Marianne Liebe, was a German designer and metalworker who led the Bauhaus metal workshop from 1928; her tea infuser MT49 and Kandem lamps became Bauhaus classics.
Mashiko ware
Mashiko ware (益子焼, Mashiko-yaki) is Japanese pottery made in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, transformed from everyday vessels into a nationally known craft after Hamada Shoji settled there in 1924.
Matières Fécales
Matières Fécales (Fecal Matter) is a Paris-based avant-garde fashion house founded by Canadian duo Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran, who met at LaSalle College Montreal in 2014, rose via Depop and skin shoes, joined the Dover Street Market Paris incubator in 2024, and debuted at Paris Fashion Week in March 2025.
Matsuda Gonroku
Matsuda Gonroku (松田権六, 1896–1986) was a Japanese lacquer artist and maki-e master, the first Living National Treasure for maki-e, who received the Order of Culture in 1976.
Mawangdui lacquered coffins
The Mawangdui lacquered coffins (马王堆漆棺) are nested painted burial coffins from three Western Han tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan, excavated 1972 to 1974, most famously the four enclosing Lady Dai.
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.
Milan Fashion Week
Milan Fashion Week (Settimana della moda di Milano) is a semiannual fashion event in Milan, Italy, one of the four major fashion weeks, held since 1958.
Millennial grey
Millennial grey, the gray-heavy interior design style of the 2010s using cool gray walls, flooring, and furniture, which arose as a reaction against warm Tuscan beige and became a Gen Z TikTok criticism before declining for sage green and warm neutrals.
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.