This oval bowl with cast, stamped, and hand-chased artic motifs was a best seller for Gorham from 1870 through the mid-1880s.

This oval bowl with cast, stamped, and hand-chased artic motifs was a best seller for Gorham from 1870 through the mid-1880s.

This oval bowl with cast, stamped, and hand-chased artic motifs was a best seller for Gorham from 1870 through the mid-1880s.

The complexity and number of individually decorated blocks within this appliquéd quilt mark it as one of the most sophisticated known examples of a Baltimore album quilt.

Shaped to suggest a two-handled drinking cup, and with motifs relating to Dionysus, god of wine, these lavish wine coolers exemplify the richly ornamented style of the British silversmith Paul Storr.

Shaped to suggest a two-handled drinking cup, and with motifs relating to Dionysus, god of wine, these lavish wine coolers exemplify the richly ornamented style of the British silversmith Paul Storr.

Shaped to suggest a two-handled drinking cup, and with motifs relating to Dionysus, god of wine, these lavish wine coolers exemplify the richly ornamented style of the British silversmith Paul Storr.

Weighing close to eighty pounds, this monumental cistern was made for Francis Hastings, the 10th Earl of Huntingdon, upon his appointment to the cabinet of King George III.

Originating in France in the 1720s, the rococo taste for naturalistic details and undulating forms had spread across Europe by 1740. Paul de Lamerie became one of Great Britain's most distinguished silversmiths.

Zum Beispiel Balthasar, 6 Jahre shows a young boy in a suit carrying a suitcase and walking down a road with a young girl. Along the way, they encounter seemingly inconsequential events that together construct a dreamlike story about childhood and memory.