The silver and copper ex-voto in the form of a leaf or feather is one of three similar pieces found together in Tunisia. The group once belonged to Norbert Schimmel, and one piece is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Glass has been used as a form of artistic expression for approximately 3,500 years. First appearing in the form of small beads in Mesopotamia, glass was soon shaped around preformed cores of earth to make hollow vases.

Glass has been used as a form of artistic expression for approximately 3,500 years. First appearing in the form of small beads in Mesopotamia, glass was soon shaped around preformed cores of earth to make hollow vases.

This Roman imperial portrait head, which is in excellent condition, straddles two areas of the Museum's ancient art collection: Roman portraiture and Near Eastern art. Roman portraits from the late second to the early fourth century A.D.

Kem Weber (1889-1963) was one of the leading designers working in America during the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Berlin, Weber studied with Bruno Paul, the director of the Academy of Applied Arts before traveling to California to supervise construction of the German pavilion at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.

Arowogun, a celebrated master sculptor and a contemporary of Olowe of Ise, was born around 1880 in the village of Osi in the Ekiti region of northern Yorubaland.

Sculptor Akobi Ogun Fakeye's name means "the first-born of Ogun." Ogun is the Yoruba god of iron and the patron saint of woodcarvers. Akobi Ogun (c. 1870-1946) was the son of a sculptor but chose not to carve. According to his son Lamidi Olonade Fakeye (b. 1925), an internationally known sculptor whose work is installed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Akobi Ogun contracted smallpox when he was about twenty years old.