1601
A Lighthouse on Fire at Night by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) . Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum.
1602
Stone carving from temple at Palenque, Mexico, circa 1895.
1603
“Soaring Clouds" Birge Harrison, ca. 1908.
1604
Greek ring dating to c. 350 BC depicting an image of the goddess Aphrodite weighing two figures of Eros. Medium: Gold. Collection of the Getty Museum.
1606
Mycenaean bronze daggers, Greece, 2nd millennium BC. Photo Credit: © Georges Millet. Collection: The National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
1607
Snail attack. Detail from the Gorleston Psalter. Collection: The British Library, ms 49622, f. 180v.
1608
Helmet in the form of a sea conch shell, 1618. Work of Nagasone Tojiro Mitsumasa (Japanese, Nagasone School, Echizen Province). Collection: the Worcester Art Museum.
1609
The Bewitched Man (also known as The Devil's Lamp) is a painting completed c. 1798 by Francisco Goya. The painting shows the protagonist, Don Claudio, who believes he is bewitched and that his life depends on keeping a lamp alight.
1610
Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1622 and 1625. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the work depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
1611
Sleeping Cat by Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (Japan, 1813-1892). Currently on public view: Pavilion for Japanese Art, floor 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US.
1612
Mould-made pottery lamp with a grasshopper feeding (likely on fruit). Dimensions: 7.5 cm long. Date: Roman Period Egypt, 1st-2nd century AD, found at Alexandria. Now on display at the British Museum.
1613
Details, Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse (1892).
1614
Bottles in the Form of a Pomegranate Egypt, ca. 1295–1070 B.C. - New Kingdom, Ramesside. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1615
The goddess Thetis, riding a hippocampus (seahorse), delivers newly forged arms to her son Achilles. Mosaic from the main andron of the House of the Mosaics, Eretria; Greece. ca. 400-350 BC. Photo: Stock Image / Alamy.
1616
Amethyst intaglio warship, Roman, 1st century AD. Photo Credit: Bertolami Fine Arts.
1617
Ferdinand Keller - Selene thrown down by Argus, 1886.
1618
A small portable book containing the Psalms and a portrait of Henry VIII. It was designed to be worn on the belt by the king's second wife, Anne Boleyn (?). London, British Library, Stowe MS 956 (c. 1540). Photo Credit: British Library @britishlibrary
1619
Mantle, ca 1805. Culture: Spanish. Medium: silk, metal thread. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
1620
Ancient Egyptian relief sculpture (painted limestone) of a porcupine. Detail of a wall fragment from the grave of Penhenuka at Saqqara, ca. 2500 BC. Now in the Neues Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: @OsamaSMAmin - Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Commons.
1621
Minoan Decorated Jug. Medium: Ceramic, slip. Geographical Locations: Place found: Egypt, Place made: Crete, Greece. Dates: ca. 1575-1500 B.C. Period: Late Minoan IB. Collection: Brooklyn Museum.
1622
Stater: Pegasus (obverse). Date: Greece, Corinth, 4th century BC. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Size: Diameter: 2.2 cm (7/8 in.) Medium: silver.
1623
Weight in shape of frog. Date & Culture: ca. 2000–1600 B.C, Babylonian. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 406, NYC.
1624
15th – early 16th Century gold signet ring shows an engraved owl with a crescent moon. Collection: Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, UK.
1625
Artemis (1st century BC), amethyst gem, National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
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