Credits

  • Goltzius’s Right Hand, 1588. Pen and brown ink. 23 x 32.2 cm. Teylers Museum, Haarlem. © Wikimedia commons

  • Anonymous maker, Goblet and Cover, Germany, c. 1600–1620. Chalcedony, gold, enamel, emeralds. 12.1 x 5.2 x 4.4cm. © Rijksmuseum, BK-17089.

  • Portrait of Dominicus Lampsonius in Pauls Freher, Theatrum virorum eruditione clarorum (Hofmann, Nuremberg: 1688), engraving, 75 x 42 mm, London, British Museum. © Trustees of the British Museum.

  • Marcantonio Raimondi, Cupid and Three Putti, 1506, engraving, 239 x 194 mm, The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, P. 3095, Presented by George Thomas Clough in 1921 © The University of Manchester

  • Unknown maker, Embroidered Casket, 1650–1675. 495 x 310 x 365 mm. © Victoria & Albert Museum, T.98-1929.

  • Qian Gu, Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion, 1560, ink and color on paper. 24.1 x 435.6 cm. © The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1980.80.

  • Unknown maker, Half of an Ottoman coffee cup of fritware, painted in colours under a clear glaze, made in Kütahya, found in Fostat, 18th century. 6.9 x 3.8 cm. © Victoria & Albert Museum, C.960-1921.

  • Master of Joachim and Anne, The Meeting of Joachim and Anna, c. 1470. Oak with traces of polychromy, 47 x 4.5 x 11 cm. © Rijksmuseum, BK-NM-88.

  • Unknown maker, Inca Tunic with Diamond Band, 1460–1540, 73.7 x 88.9 cm. © The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1982.365.

  • Alexander at a Banquet, folio from a Khamsa of Nizami, AH 931/ AD 1524–25, 17 x 11.5 cm. © The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 13.228.7.16.