1601
Painted Elk Hide: Hide Painting of the Sun Dance, Attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody) (Shoshone, 1866-1912). On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, The Americas’ First Peoples, Brooklyn Museum, US.
1602
A child’s toy (?) - Elephant, . Culture & Geography: Iran, probably Nishapur, 10th century AD. Medium: stone - (6.6 x 8.9 cm). Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1603
Childbirth pot. Date: c. between A.D. 1000 and 1130. Culture/Place: Mimbres. The Mimbres region includes southwestern New Mexico and adjacent areas in Arizona and northern Mexico. The name Mimbres is also the name of the river running through the center of the region.
1604
Fresco of a heron and snake from the House of the Epigrams, Pompeii, c. 45 - 79 AD. Photographer: Stefano Bolognini via Wikimedia Commons.
1605
Stater of Metapontion with ear of barley and grasshopper, Greece 500–473 B.C Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1606
Wedding Scene by the Ancient Greek “Eretria Painter”, c. 425 BC.
1607
Bowl Depicting a Swarm of Mice. Medium: ceramic and pigment Period: 180 BC - 500 AD. Culture: Nazca; South coast, Peru. Now on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. Illustration by Elena Izcue (1889-1970).
1609
Temple of Portunus (Rome, Italy) by Eugène Constant, 1848–52. Albumen print from glass negative. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1610
Snailstag. Detail from ‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506 BL, Add 18852, fols. 305r and 305v.
1611
Textile doll with gold jewelry, a toy. Date: A.D. 2nd century. Place of origin: Egypt Medium: Leather, gilded; human hair, wool linen, paint. Credit / Collection: The Egyptian Museum of Berlin (German: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung).
1613
8.5" sculpture of a Victorian ghost emerging from an antique mirror cast in resin. Cast in a translucent resin, glow in the dark, and hand painted with a brass hanger on the back. Work of Dellamorteco. #modernart
1614
Antikythera Mechanism, c. 100-150 BC. The mechanism had several dials and clock dials, each with a different function for measuring the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, but were all operated by a single main crank.
1615
Saint George Killing the Dragon, Bernat Martorell, 1434/35.
1617
The Great Sphinx and pyramids of Giza in Egypt on March 4, 1862, photographed by Francis Bedford. (Royal Collection Trust)
1618
Maya Funerary Urn. Date: c. 500-950 AD. Place of origin: Guatemala. Dimensions: 14 ¾ × 16 × 13 ½ in. Medium: Ceramic and pigment. The Menil Collection, Photo: Thomas R. DuBrock.
1619
Snake. Culture: Greek. Period: Classical Period. Date: 400 B.C. Medium: Bronze. Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1620
Gold Crocodile Pendant. Quimbaya Culture, Colombia. Collection: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
1621
Beaded and Embroidered Silk Evening Cape c. 1920s.
1622
William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Lost Pleiad (1884).
1623
Spoon with Jackal Handle. Place of origin: Saqqara, Egypt Date: ca. 1539-1292 B.C. Period: 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom. - Now on display at the Brooklyn Museum.
1624
Dolphin. Place of origin: Greece. Date: c. 300 B.C.-A.D. 100. Medium: Bronze. Now on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1625
Cave of El Castillo, Spain. Hands and a Bison. Some of the hand stencils, mostly near the front and middle sections of the cave, were painted more than 37,000 years ago, but some of the more recent hand stencils are 24,000 years old.
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