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:
“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)
“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)
“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)