Cat with kittens

Egypt, Saite period (664–525 BC)

Head of King Senwosret III

Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty (c. 1860 BC)

Statuette of the official Bes

Egypt, Late period, 26th Dynasty (660–610 BC)

Low-relief of a pharaoh

Egypt, early Ptolomaic period (c. 300–250 BC)

Solar barque of Djedhor

Egypt, Late Period, 26th–30th Dynasties (c. 380–343 BC)

Torso of King Pedubast

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 23rd Dynasty (818–793 BC) 

Lamp

Eastern Turkey, Kutahya, 18th century 

Illuminated Bible

Istanbul, 1623

The Four Gospels

Isfahan, 1686 

Assyrian low-relief

Nimrud, c. 884–859 BC

‘Les Oeuvres Morales & Meslées de Plutarque’

Paris: Imprimerie de Michel de Vascosan et Federic Morel, 1572

‘Flavii Iosephi Opera’

Basileae, Froben, 1544 

The Book of Hours of Isabel of Brittany or ‘The Hours of Lamoignon’

Paris, c. 1415

‘Instructions of Marino Grimani to Zuanne Lippomano […]’

Venice, 16th century 

Book of Hours of Alfonso I d’Este

Italy, c. 1506–7 (?)

Hours of Margaret of Cleves

Holland, The Hague, c. 1395–1400

Winged siren seizing an adolescent

Denys Pierre Puech
France, 1899

Statuette of a child

Aimé-Jules Dalou
Paris, 1902–5