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Gold Objects
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Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Ceremonial shield 19th century
gold, iron
8.0 x 46.5 cm

National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta
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Here is an 18k gold coffee set, made in 1897 (there are also matching tongs) as a golden wedding anniversary gift for a rich New York couple.

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Crotal bell, gold, Panama, 6th-10th century; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Baptismal ewer and basin in museum in Toruń (Poland).

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This bowl is one of the finest pieces from a large treasure found in 1902 in a field at Vrap, Albania

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« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2012, 10:56:56 AM »

Sliding lid with the cross, from the treasury of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. Gilded silver, wax and paint, Byzantium, 12th century.

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« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2012, 11:00:10 AM »

Personal cutlery set of Emperor Franz II (I). Gold, steel blade, leather and velvet box. Spoon,
knife, fork, egg and marrow spoon, spice box. By Wenzel Kowanzky, Vienna, Third quarter of 18th-century. Catalogue n°6, "Silberkammer", Hofburg, Vienna, Austria.