A Chinese Green Glazed Hill Jar with Cover, Western Han Dynasty, ca. 206 BCE – 9 CE Ceramics jewelry served both as a

jewelry served both as a symbol of identity and social status as well as an ornament

Weights in the form of bulls and rams are especially associated with the Eighteenth Dynasty and the Amarna Period

This rare and significant ancient gold ring features a high-domed garnet cabochon set in an elevated cylindrical bezel

Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Adams Collection

These paintings are “framed” within distinct boundary lines

A Chinese Green Glazed Hill Jar with Cover, Western Han Dynasty, ca. 206 BCE – 9 CE Ceramics jewelry served both as aThis fine green glazed ceramic hill jar is a Han dynasty funerary vessel, created to symbolically safeguard the deceased's journey into the afterlife. These jars were primarily used to hold fragrant substances for burning rather than for storing everyday items, and are often found in tombs. Serving as ceramic incense burners, they symbolized a journey to the Daoist paradise and were typically filled with aromatic materials such as foreign incense and