Bowler hat by Hayakawa Shokosai I, Japan, ca. 1890. Bamboo, rattan, leather, and lacquer. Loaned to the Asia Society Museum from the Minneapolis Institute of Art [7940x5558]3mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Camelid fiber and cotton embroidered mantle with motif of warriors holding staffs with two hanging severed heads each [detail]. Early Nazca style, Ica, Peru, ca. 1st-5th c. AD. American Museum of Natural History collection [4032x3024] [OC]. More images in comments1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Sculpture of a damned soul from the Fates of Man series. Polychrome wood, glass and metal. Attributed to Manuel Chili, known as Caspicara. Royal audience of Quito, present-day Ecuador, ca. 1775. Hispanic Society Museum collection [728x1000]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Alabaster jubilee vessel of Pepi I, with pigment. Old Kingdom Egypt, 6th dynasty, ca. 2290 BC. Walters Art Museum collection [1620x1800]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Terracotta head in jaguar's jaws. Veracruz, Mexico, Late Classic period, Remojadas style, ca. 600-800 AD. American Museum of Natural History collection [3000x4000] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Mug from Mesa Verde. Clay and paint, ca. 1100-1300 AD (ancestral Pueblo). Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Indian Arts Research Center of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM [2657x3543] [OC]9mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Vessel with rodents. Ceramic with pigment. Nasca culture, South coast, Peru, ca. 200-600 AD. Yale University Art Gallery [3000x4000] [OC]9mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Silver alpaca and llama [with blanket], Inca, 15th or early 16th century AD, from present-day Bolivia [3790x1862] [OC]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Funerary mask representing a deity known as the Oculate Being. Paracas culture, south coast of Peru, ca. 300 BC - 1 AD. Ceramic with resin and pigments. Brooklyn Museum collection (2975x2900] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Wooden bust with human hair and pigments, inlaid with abalone shell. New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 19th c. Newark Museum of Art collection [3000x4000] [OC]7mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Trumpet made from conch shell incised with hematite. Maya (Tikal Area, Peten, Guatemala), Early Classic Period, 300–550 AD. Seen on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va. [3000x4000] [OC]5mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Steatite seal with unicorn and inscription. Indus Valley civilization, present-day Pakistan, ca. 2000 BC. Cleveland Museum of Art collection [4058x3538]8mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Bat god statue, Zapotec/Monte Alban culture, c 250-500 AD [3024x4032] [OC]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Cup in the form of a pointed shoe, used for toasting by a shoemakers' guild. German, late 16th c. Leather with silver mounts. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [4000x3000]5mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Bronze sculpture of a boar. Eastern Javanese ca. 14th c (Majapahit kingdom). Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [4000x3000] [OC]3mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Portrait of Henry VII of England by an unknown Netherlandish artist (1505). Oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, London, collection [3000x4000] [OC]2mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape, oil on canvas ca. 1770-1796 by Agostino Brunias, likely depicting the Caribbean island of Dominica. Brooklyn Museum collection [1536x1208]2mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Bronze bollard for tying boat to wharf with young fisherman holding rudder and net over his shoulder. Early 5th century AD, late Roman Italy [3024×4032] [OC]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Necklace and pectoral of Sithathoriunet (c 1887-1878 BC, Egyptian 12th dynasty). Gold, carnelian, feldspar, garnet, turquoise, lapis lazuli. The design reads as a hieroglyph [3811*3049]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Plate. Roman, ca. 1st-2nd c AD. Cast, lathe-turned and polished glass. Toledo Museum of Art collection [4000x3000] [OC]5mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Vessel in the form of a penguin. Ceramic with slip. Nasca culture, South coast, Peru, ca. 350-500 AD. Art Institute of Chicago collection [1540x2250]6mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Mosaic fragment depicting Tethys and Oceanus from House of the Boat of Psyches, Daphne suburb, Antioch, Roman Syria, present-day Turkey, 3rd c AD. Baltimore Museum of Art collection [1024x766]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Crucified Christ. Walrus ivory with traces of paint and gilding. Northern Europe, likely Paris, ca. 1300. The Cloisters collection [3000x4000] [OC]1mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Silver tetradrachm of Demetrius of Bactria. Panjshir (Afghanistan) ca. 190-171 BC. Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid [4032x3024] [OC]1mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/AncientCivilizations
Tripod bowl with imagery of skull and serrated flint knife. Ceramic with pigment. Mixteca-Puebla culture, Mexico, ca. 1000-1500 AD. Brooklyn Museum collection [1245x1536]6mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Silver menorah from Lviv, Austrian Galicia, present-day Ukraine, ca. 1866-1872. Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art [1440x1799]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Qing dynasty Chinese lapis lazuli and jade-hilted knife with sheath, bearing mark of Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) [960x540]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Brush washer. Porcelaneous stoneware (Ru ware). Northern Song dynasty China (Baofeng, Henan), ca. late 1000s-1127. Produced only for the imperial court, Ru ware is among the rarest Chinese ceramics with fewer than 100 pieces extant. Cleveland Museum of Art collection [3257x3400]1mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Rhyton with the forepart of a zebu. Silver with gilt sheeting. Persia, Seleucid period, 2nd c BC. Toledo Museum of Art collection [2000x2553]7mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Spoon with detachable toothpick. Venice, Italy, ca. 1500. Enameled shell and coral with gilt-silver mounts. Cleveland Museum of Art collection [3056x3400]6mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Pilgrim flask with the Corpus Christi made from free-blown glass. Jesus' body is hollow and fills with whatever liquid is contained in the flask. Lower or middle Rhineland, Germany, ca. 1490-1510. The Cloisters collection [3726x4560]11mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Terracotta sculpture of a fanged quadruped engaged in combat with one human figure while another sits in a contemplative pose underneath its body. Jenne-Jeno culture, Mali, 12th-15th c. Yale University Art Gallery collection [3000x2250]5mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Toilet spoon in the form of a bouquet including lotus and papyrus blossoms, marguerites, poppy buds, and a mandrake fruit. Wood, horn and paste. New Kingdom Egypt, late 18th dynasty, ca. 1336-1295 BC, reportedly from Saqqara. Brooklyn Museum collection [3000x4000] [OC]3mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Blown-glass dish with raised lip. Egypt, 3rd-4th c AD. Seen at the Walters Art Museum, on loan from the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum [4000x3000] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Carved stone yoke of a type thought to have been worn, belt-like, at the waist by players of the ancient Mesoamerican ballgame. Classic period ca. 1-900 AD, thought to be from Veracruz, Mexico. American Museum of Natural History collection [4000x3000]. More pics in comments1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Maya monkey head pendant made from shell. Aguateca, Guatemala, 8th c. Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia, Guatemala City [3000x4000] [OC]2wk ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Head of a man. Ptolemaic Egypt, 2nd half 2nd c BC. Granodiorite. Walters Art Museum collection [3000x4000] [OC]5mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Covered goblet with unicorn, made from narwhal tooth, gilded silver and enamel. Frankfurt, Germany, mid 17th century. Seen on loan to the Met Cloisters from a private collection [3024x4032] [OC]11mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Headrest of Khentika. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster). From tomb of Khentika, Saqqara. Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, ca. 2323-2150 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [3200x4000]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Filigreed silver amulet case or Sabbath key holder. Keter workshop, Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem ca. 1910-20. Jewish Museum collection [3000x4000] [OC]2wk ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Red-figure terracotta bell krater showing obverse side with satyr and maenad. From Apulia, southern Italy, ca. 380-360 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [4000x4000]7mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Faience situla with blue glaze and erased cartouche of Akhenaten. New Kingdom Egypt, Amarna period, ca. 1351-1334 BC. Walters Art Museum collection [3000x4000] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Exceptionally preserved painted linen textile made as offering to the goddess Hathor, 19th dynasty Egyptian c 1300-1250 BC [4032x2166] [OC]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Silver alloy funerary mask. China, Liao dynasty, Khitan culture, late 10th or early 11th c. Philadelphia Museum of Art [3000x4000] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Fluted stoneware bottle vase with bamboo-stalk motif and celadon glaze; 12th century Korean (Goryeo dynasty); [3024 * 4032]; [OC]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Gold ring with green glazed steatite scarab set in a gold swivel bezel so that ring can display either scarab or, swiveled around, double hieroglyphs for Thutmose III (seen here). New Kingdom Egypt, ca. 1479-1425 BC. See scarab side in comments. Brooklyn Museum [3000x4000] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Large storage jar that may have held a beverage for a banquet. Ceramic with blue pigment. New Kingdom Egypt, Amarna period, reign of Akhenaten, ca 1353-1336 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [3000x4000] [OC]8mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Frog or toad figurine carved from fuchsite, 7.3 x 5.7 cm. Early dynastic Egyptian ca. 3100-2650 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [3000x2945] [OC]10mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Base for a seated Buddha with figures of ascetics. Gray schist. Gandhara, modern Pakistan or Afghanistan, ca. 150-200 AD. Cleveland Museum of Art collection [3400x2658]2mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Attic red figure kylix depicting an owl between olive branches, 4th c BC, from Mengibar Necropolis, Jaen, Spain. Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid [4000x2667]11mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Ivory snuff bottle with hundred son motif. Qing dynasty Chinese, 19th c. Newark Museum of Art collection [2897x3863]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Stucco sculpture of the head of a woman. Greco-Buddhist artistic style, ancient Gandhara, 4th-5th c AD, believed to be from modern Hadda, Afghanistan. Wadsworth Atheneum collection [2974x2974] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Swan-neck glass bottle (ashkdan). Iranian, 19th c. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [3791 x 3791]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Late 2nd century Roman mosaic from Italy depicting an Egyptian scene of a crocodile attack [2979×2683] [OC]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Bronze oil lamp in the form of a bound prisoner. Nubian, Meroitic period, ca. 1st c. BC - 2nd c. AD. Walters Museum collection [1800 x 1098]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Painted limestone statue with a higher status man at left, a lower status man and a boy. New Kingdom Egypt, Amarna period, reign of Akhenaten, ca 1353-1336 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [3001x4000]10mo ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Middle Minoan votive double axe c. 1650-1600 BC from Herakleion Archaeological Museum [1536 x 2048] [OS]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Painted ceramic bottle in the form of a standing feline. Gallinazo aka Viru culture, northern Peru, ca. 200 BC - 600 AD. American Museum of Natural History collection [2718x3624] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The Guadalajara sword, with copper blade and gold hilt, from middle Bronze Age Spain c 1600-1300 BC [2762 x 3683] [OC]; more pics in comments4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Gilt copper statue of Tara, the Buddhist savior, inlaid with semiprecious stones, from Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, 14th c. [3024x4032] [OC]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
First Phase Chief Blanket, Navajo, handspun wool and indigo dye, c. 1850 [1356*1050]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Fearsome First Daughter (Adiaha Unak) Mask for the Ekpo Association. Ibibio or Annang culture, Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria, early 20th century. Baltimore Museum of Art collection [3000 x 4000] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Stone sculpture of an ascetic. Ancient Gandhara, modern Pakistan, Kushan Empire period, ca. late 1st-early 4th c AD. Yale University Art Gallery collection [3000x4000] [OC]1yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Limestone Jewish ossuary with lid, Roman, 1st-3rd c AD. Lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art [4031 x 3023] [OC]2yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Jingdezhen ware vase with dragon handles and crimson-flushed blue glaze. Qing dynasty Chinese, reign of Yongzheng c 1723-1735. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [3024 x 4032] [OC]2yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Iron short sword with gold inlay of flame motif, from China's Western Han dynasty (206 B.C - 9 A.D.) [470 x 600]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
This was the lot of the Collyer brothers' house in Harlem, NYC, where both brothers died in 1947. It took a week of searching before one body was found in a tunnel. Approximately 120 tons of debris were removed4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/hoarding
These delicious looking patties of something, mysteriously labelled as Meat Department, are a steal at $1.998yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/shittyfoodporn
Painted clay killer whale figure, Nazca culture, Peru, c 100 BC - 700 AD [4032 x 3024] [OC]4yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Content of Buddy Holly's overnight bag, just as he packed it for the plane8yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Unattended mystery beverage, possibly beer, in plastic food container with straw. Seen on West 127th Street, Manhattan3yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/shittyfoodporn
Lioness leans against SUV, just before lunging through the window and fatally attacking Game of Thrones editor Katherine Chappell9yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Dominican breakfast in Washington Heights. $6.50 including the coffee2yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/CheapEatsNYC
PoOR DoOMed DaLMAtiAN PuPPEr KNoWs WhaT CRuELla FUCKInG de VILLe WaNTs7yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/PeopleFuckingDying
Giovanni di Paolo (1398 - 1482) -- The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise7yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/museum
Last photo of mountaineers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine at Mount Everest base camp in 19249yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Rembrandt's final self portrait at the age of 63, dated 1669, the year of his death9yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Stephen Miller tests out the Trump administration's policy on immigrant families with children [2017]6yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/fakehistoryporn
8-year old Martin Richard, standing on the railing in a black shirt, watches the 2013 Boston Marathon with his family, while bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev, wearing a white cap, is visible behind them9yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Last photo of Nick Adenhart of the Los Angeles Angels, pitching his final game on April 8, 2009, hours before he was killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run accident9yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Last photo taken of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent who was poisoned by radioactive polonium in 200610yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Poor resigned slave awaits sacrifice and internment with deceased Sumerian king in order to continue serving him in the next world. c 2500 BC5yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/fakehistoryporn
Taken shortly before she disappeared while hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Maine10yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Last photo of student volunteer Britney Gengel, killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake10yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
He attacked two police officers with an ax in a Queens subway station in what is believed to have been a terrorist attack, and was shot dead at the scene10yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Movie star Linda Christian kissing Spanish racing driver Alfonso de Portago at the 1957 Mille Miglia moments before he drove off and crashed, killing himself, his navigator and ten spectators10yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson at the premiere of Air America in 19909yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Eco friendly restaurant that only serves its food in jars opens in Greenwich Village (starting at $12)8yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/shittyfoodporn
Polaroid of an unidentified bound and gagged boy and girl (possibly missing person Tara Calico) found in a parking lot in Port St Lucie, Fla., in 198811yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Last picture of Bill Comeans, victim of an unsolved murder at age 14 in January 1980 after several previous attacks11yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/lastimages
A steak cut off of a relatively inexpensive chuck roast. The best cheap steak I've had10yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/meat
1680 plan of the Palace of Whitehall, then the main royal palace in London with over 1500 rooms which burned down in 1698 [1280*914]10yr ⋅ oldspice75 ⋅ r/MapPorn
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