Ancient Roman bronze sculpture of a wolf's head. Artist unknown; 1st cent. CE. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Bronze vase, 1644-1704, China.

Now in the Etruscan Gallery of the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany. Photo credit: Gary Todd | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication

Ancient Greek bronze figurine representing Nike, the winged goddess of victory, in a pose of motion. The figurine would have originally been attached to a larger votive vessel, such as a tripod. Artist unknown; ca. 500 BCE (Archaic period). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.

Ancient Greek bronze tripod foot in the shape of a sphinx, dating to ca. 600 BCE (Archaic period). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This statue was made in Japan in the early 1880s (Meiji period). In 1902, Scottish entrepreneur James Douglas Fletcher purchased it as decoration for his estate on the Black Isle, Rosehaugh, which (like many British estates of the period) contained acquisitions from cultures around the world. The statue is now on display in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Ancient Greek statuette (solid cast bronze) of a boxer. The man's hands are wrapped in leather thongs, which served as Greco-Roman antiquity's counterpart to modern boxing gloves, and he holds a sponge. Oil lamps would originally have been suspended from the base on which he stands. Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE (late Hellenistic period). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.

Frieze (gilt bronze inset with hard stones and turquoise) made by an unknown 15th-century artist at the monastery of Densatil, Tibet. This frieze depicts Nagaraja, a deity, common to Hinduism and Buddhism, who rules the nagas, half-human, half-serpent beings residing in the Underworld (Patala). It now resides in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA.