Gallery
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A Mesopotamian lapis lazuli pendant circa 2900 BC.
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A 11 cm (4.3 in)-long lapis lazuli dove studded with gold pegs. Elamite. Dated 1200 BC from Susa, Iran
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Carved lapis lazuli mountain scene, from the Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).
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An elephant carving on high-quality lapis lazuli, that includes gold-colored pyrite, is a rare example of Mughal inspired art. (length: 8 cm (3.1 in))
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Close-up of the lapis lazuli inlays in the 25th-century BC Statue of Ebih-Il
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)