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Silver

Metallic element having the symbol Ag and atomic number 47. It is a malleable, ductile, white metal with characteristic sheen, considered precious.

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The Torah and its adornment

Wearable art in Byzantium

Illuminated Greek Gospel-books

The Electrotyping Process

The Bauhaus: Marianne Brandt

Manuscripts: major works of art

Medieval goldsmiths

Works of Art

Sasanian plate

4th century C.E.

Writing box with utensils, decorated with photographs of Nasir a-Din Shah, his court, and views of Paris and Tehran, Iran

1860–65

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Punch Bowl with Three Ladles

1900

Teaching guide: Covered sugar bowl

c. 1745

Portraits of Alexander the Great

Roman copy c. 1–50 C.E.

Roman copy c. 20 B.C.E.–20 C.E.

Roman copy c. 2nd century C.E.

c. 325 B.C.E.

305–281 B.C.E.

Amazigh Kabyle brooches (fibulae)

late 19th–early 20th century

Handheld Prayer Wheel

early 20th century

Cross of Lothair II

c. 1000

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