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Likely used during Zen temple meals, this pot has a fixed black handle and small black feet. The top of the rectangular lid handle was carved in the shape of a chrysanthemum blossom. As a result of prolonged use, the red outer lacquer surface of Negoro wares such as this pot gradually and irregularly wore away, exposing the black lacquer underneath; this effect of natural aging became prized among vessels of this kind.

Details, part I; Claude Paradin: Devises Héroïques, 1551.

Marcel Duchamp, Possible, (ink on paper), Paris, 1913 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Association Marcel Duchamp / Adagp, Paris. Photo: Philippe Migeat/Centre Pompidou]

Slim Aarons, Sailing Dinghy, 1956

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (also known as The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve), (Detail), (c. 1615), by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 – 1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Dutch, 1568 –1625), oil on panel, 74.3 cm (29.2 in) x 114.7 cm (45.1 in), Mauritshuis, The Hague

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Richard Hell’s East Village apartment

Photograph by Aitor Frias & Cecilia Jimenez

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leopard orchid

Details from the painting Medea meditating on killing her children (1852), by Bezzuoli.

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