The earliest developed civilization on the Indian subcontinent, marked by agriculture, cities, crafts, writing, and a multi-class social system, was centered on the five branches of the Indus River in what is now Pakistan and northwest India.

This is a fine kind of porcelain first developed by Josiah Wedgwood. White in its natural state, it is stained with metallic oxide coloring agents to achieve shades of pale blue, dark blue, lilac, sage green, black, and yellow, though blue and white ware is most common. Used for cameos, vases, plaques, tableware, furniture mounts, and portrait medallions.

This black-figure kylix consists of a black foot and a bowl with a black offset lip, an ornamental frieze on the handle zone, and a black lower zone, with an ornamented red area where the bowl attaches to the foot.

This Attic Greek krater painted in a red-figure style features the classical image of an Amazon on the obverse, and a youth striding with a torch on the reverse. Amazons were thought to be Asian women warriors who participated in the Trojan War on the Trojan side.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Wendy and Emery Reves amassed more than 200 pieces of ironwork ranging in date from the 15th to 19th century. Much of this collection was acquired from a dealer in Salzburg, Austria. Occasionally, the couple purchased important single pieces from other dealers. The roman lockplate, for example, was bought in 1967 from French and Company in New York.