Folding fan with an image of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

c. 1870

France

Gold wreath with detached stem including leaves and berries

Greek, Hellenistic Period, 300-100 B.C.

Aleksandr Khlebnikov (1897-1979)

Benz and Chang, “Sarcophagus, 1935”

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