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Dress

c. 1926

American

Kent State University Museum

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Gold ring with Chi-Rho monogram, Byzantine, 6th-7th century AD

from The Princeton University Art Museum

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1925 French sofa attributed to Andre Groult. It is a two seat sofa featuring a mahogany frame with exceptional wood carvings, visible in the armrests. Upholstered in a green/blue velour. From 1st Dibs.

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Art Nouveau Demantoid Garnet & Two-Color Gold Pendant / Brooch Moscow around 1908

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1919 blue evening dress

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Dress

c. 1909-1910

The National Museum of Norway

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Necklace made of iron

c. 1820

German

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

World map by hao xiaoguang, 2002

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Shell. Chair. Shair if you will.

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Ginkgo chair by Claude Lalanne

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Beaded Bracelet of Queen Ahhotep

This beaded bracelet of Queen Ahhotep, which is one of a pair, was found along with other jewels inside her sarcophagus.

Second Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, ca. 1560-1530 BC. From Dra’ Abu el-Naga’, West Thebes. Excavation by A. Mariette (1859). Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 4685

The bracelet is composed of 30 rows of gold beads and semiprecious stones (lapis lazuli, turquoise and carnelian), alternating with each other in a special design to form triangles and squares.

The clasp is made out of two gold sheets that slide within each other to close the bracelet tight. The clasps are engraved with hieroglyphs that can only be read when the two gold plaques are closed together: they form the cartouches of the queen’s son, Ahmose, who founded the 18th Dynasty. His coronation name, Nebpehtyre, is given on one, and his birth name, Ahmose, on the other.

Most of the objects found in the tomb of Queen Ahhotep bear the names of her sons, Kamose and Ahmose, the kings that chased the Hyksos out of the country.

The queen played a major role during the war of liberation as testified by the many objects that her sons donated to her grave goods. Some of those gifts were weapons, unusual for a woman’s tomb.