Dressing tables were often made in conjunction with high chests. Placed in a bedchamber, the high chest held linens and apparel, while the dressing table contained smaller personal items such as combs, jewelry, hair ribbons, and cosmetics.

Arguably Harry Carnohan’s most celebrated work, West Texas Landscape depicts an isolated, barren wasteland. While seemingly uninhabited, the scene’s elements of desertion and emptiness do hint at a once lively human presence.

In Still Life with Striped Gourd, Otis Dozier paints a vibrant assemblage of freshly harvested gourds spilling over a tabletop in a country home.

This bold baroque soup tureen and stand was made in London in 1728 by the well-known German silversmith Charles Kandler, who trained at the Saxon court in Dresden in the early 18th century.

This tureen-on-stand is a magnificent example of a Chinese adaptation of a European prototype. Although the actual model sent to China could have been made of pottery, wax, wood, or pewter, the ultimate inspiration was likely a French silver tureen in the late rococo taste.

The Maloh populate the upper Kapuas River basin of West Kalimantan.

In the Baleh region where the woman's skirt (1983.135) originates, the central motif of the cloth's design is known as the Aji Bulan or Moon Rat. Anthony J.N.

People sometimes ask the inevitable question of why I found Indonesia so attractive in the first place.