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Imperial Chinese Zitan Side Table, 18th Century.

A suzuribako (box for writing utensils) Edo Period (Late 17th-Early 18th Century) 23.4cm. long. Estimate: �7,000-10,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.

For more than 50 years, the museum waited. Someday it would round out its group of 18th-century French paintings with a canvas by the marvelous Jean-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779). Chardin, beloved in his native Paris, crafted still lifes, portraits, and domestic scenes with stunning realism a century before photography was invented. Through the decades, the museum considered, but rejected, ...

“Grace After Meals and other Benedictions,” Vienna , 18th century. An extraordinary illuminated manuscript. NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's announced today that it would display in its entirety, for the first time ever, the Valmadonna Trust Library, the finest private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts in the world.

Jefferson's Monticello: Cowrie Shell Monticello's archaeological collection contains hundreds of thousands of artifacts that systematically document the changing lifeways of Monticello's residents. Among the most intriguing objects in the collection is a money cowrie shell found in excavations along Mulberry Row, the street of slave houses and craft shops adjacent to Jefferson's mansion. The shell attests to the persistence of African cultural traditions at Monticello in the late 18th century