Lidded Cup With Ostrich Egg, Augsburg, Ca. 1570/75, Clement Kicklinger (Meister 1561 - 1617 Augsburg).

Lidded Cup with Ostrich Egg, Augsburg, ca. 1570/75, Clement Kicklinger (Meister 1561 - 1617 Augsburg).

Ostrich egg, coral, silver, partially gilded and painted.

Courtesy Alain Truong

Gold pectoral with coins and a medallion, Byzantine, circa 540-550 AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gold and amber pendant necklace, Etruscan, 550-450 BC

from The J. Paul Getty Museum

Sailmaker's tools, 19th Century A knot-work needle case with needles, two sailor's palms, two whalebone and leather needles, a thimble and an unusual wood and rope implement

Onyx jade mask, Teotihuacan (Central Mexico), 200-900 AD

from Dumbarton Oaks

Gilded bronze cuirass uncovered from a Carthaginian tomb near Ksour Essef in Tunisia, 3rd century BC