Armchair for the Chinese pavilion of Princess Kinsky (1793)
Charles Percier
Mahogany and molded mahogany veneer
Attributed to Georges Jacob. Private collection, Paris.
From the exhibition: Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions
Wine Cup with Cover (jue 角) (Vessel: ca. 1200–1000 BCE, Cover: 1644–1911)
Bronze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1943 (43.27.1a, b). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From the exhibition: Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu
Cutlass-shaped club
Trobriand Islands, Massim, Papua New Guinea
Wood, white pigment (lime)
28⅜ × 3½ × 1 in. (72 × 9 × 2.5 cm)
Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 80.0/9903
Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania