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From 18 September, we will be showing an exhibition called «Baroque Pearl», exclusively on our website, comprising jewels and precious objects from the Renaissance to the art nouveau.

More than 200 precious objects from the Ottoman Empire, all of which once graced the sultan's palace.

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This precious object is a rare survivor from the jewellery collection of Queen Elizabeth I.

Some 300 precious Qing dynasty objects from the royal palace (now the national museum in Beijing), and the bicycle of the last emperor, Pu - Yi.

The suites with its own distinctive character are decorated in the elegant style of a Venetian private palazzo: furnished with original antiques and numerous antiquarian objects from the hotel's own private collections and the walls hung with precious silks and Venetian velvets.

Particularly fascinating are the household objects and jewellery carved from precious Kauri Amber which once belonged to local families, as well as the extraordinary wealth of information about the Kauri trees themselves, so important to the early settlement of New Zealand.

He has also used sculpture to question «things the mind already knows», as he has put it, casting torches, lightbulbs, ale cans and objects from his studio in bronze, wittily reformulating everyday objects as precious works of art.

From the gallery: The new series is also playing on confusion between precious objects and pedestrian material of choice, the backlit packing tape.

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The exhibition features more than 500 archaeological objects and works from Mexico and the United States, including jewelry, works of precious metals, and household as well as ceremonial artifacts.

Also included is a work by Gimhongsok, from Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim in Seoul; A Star (2011) is one of a series of sculptures entitled «Ordinary Objects» that appropriate everyday objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious Objects» that appropriate everyday objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious metals.

«We thank all our clients, vendors and buyers, past, present or future, for entrusting us now and over the centuries with the safe passage of precious and historic objects — from one country to another, and from one generation to its successor.»

Organized by Evelyn Hankins, a curator at the Hirshhorn, this is also Mr. Irwin's first major American survey outside his native California in nearly 40 years and the first anywhere devoted entirely to his work from the 1960s, when, in full experimental mode, he was shifting the emphasis of his own art from psychic encounters to physical ones, from precious objects to environments, places of contemplation.

Many of these remarkable objects — from firedogs, wall lights, and doorknobs to elaborate mounts for rare Chinese porcelain and precious hardstone vases — have never before been shown publicly in New York, and their assembly in an exhibition will provide the basis for a fresh understanding of his oeuvre.»

THE PASTON TREASURE: MICROCOSM OF THE KNOWN WORLD The 17th - century Paston Treasure, commissioned by a wealthy Norfolk family to immortalize its collection of treasures from musical instruments and American tobacco to luxuriously gold - mounted nautilus shells, is shown on this side of the pond for the first time, along with more than a hundred apropos precious objects — some of them also from the Pastons.

These have been mischievously interspersed with «ancient» bronze objects purchased by Beard from eBay, inviting us to ponder on the magical — and confusing — power of a museum display to render even the most insignificant object precious.

«Precious objects» includes highlights from the series «Animalvegetablemineral» (2013) and «Fleurs d'excès» (2011).

The art of Monte Albán had given us the freedom to see things detached from their use, as pure materials, worth being turned into precious objects.

Made from the bits and pieces accumulate over a lifetime, Memory Ware revives those objects that are too chipped, broken or dated to keep, but too precious to throw away, with new life.

Objects from the surrounding neighborhood and the artist's private life were incorporated in her Cells, such as steel shelves from the studio's prior use as a garment factory (Articulated Lair, 1986) and a water tank taken from its rooftop (Precious Liquids, 1992).

The exhibition, on view in Cleveland from October 17, 2010, to January 17, 2011, will provide American audiences with an unparalleled opportunity to see about 100 extraordinary works of late antique, Byzantine, and Western medieval art, including precious metalwork objects, paintings, sculptures, and illuminated manuscripts, drawn from public and private collections as well as church treasuries across the United States and Europe.

MIA holds one of the world's greatest collections of Islamic art, spanning over 1,400 years and representing Islamic art from three continents, with precious objects, paintings, textiles and jewels in its extensive permanent collection.

This piece utilizes iron wires as its medium, reappropriating these mundane connective tools by elevating their utility from the anonymous materials of mass production to the precious status of rarefied art objects.

Cheap aluminum kettles and tiffin boxes, decorative wall tapestry and textiles, mostly collected from markets in Cirebon, are either hung on the walls or are placed on wooden plinths as if in a museum, transforming every day objects into precious items.

The New Museum on Bowery hosts «The Keeper,» an exhibition dedicated to the art of preserving objects from the most precious to the apparently worthless.

An accompanying video animation called «Stealing Attention» (a collaboration with neuroscientist Michael E. Goldberg, Director of the Mahoney Center for Brain and Behavior, Columbia University) draws parallels between card tricks and the looting of precious art objects from the Iraq National Museum after the fall of Baghdad.