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Appliqués, plaques, pectoral elements and fittings in gold or bronze, typically in the animal style: stags, felines, griffins and coiled predators.

Neolithic–Chalcolithic vessels and figurines with bichrome or trichrome painted spirals, meanders and bands on buff or red fabric.

Tempera icons on wooden panels, often with gilded grounds or metal revetments (oklad), plus liturgical metalwork from Orthodox and Greek-Catholic churches.

Mummiform funerary figurines, often inscribed, in blue-green faience or stone, and small amulets of deities, scarabs and protective symbols.

Painted anthropoid coffin elements, cartonnage panels and masks with hieroglyphic bands, winged deities and funerary scenes.

Limestone and sandstone stelae, tomb and temple relief fragments with incised or raised hieroglyphs and figures in profile.

Mould-made portrait heads, figural and stirrup-spout vessels, usually in cream-and-red slip, from Peru's north coast.

Thin-walled bowls, double-spout bottles and effigy vessels with multi-coloured slip painting of mythical beings, birds and plants.

Woven and embroidered tunics, mantles and fragments in camelid fibre and cotton, with tapestry-woven geometric or figural designs.

Attic and other Greek vases (amphorae, kylikes, lekythoi, kraters) with figures painted in black on red clay, or reserved in red on a black ground.

Cast bronze ritual vessels (ding, gui, jue, zun) and weapons such as ge dagger-axes, with taotie masks, dragon motifs and green or grey patina.

Mingqi tomb figures of attendants, horses, camels and guardians, including sancai three-colour lead-glazed wares.

Sandstone and bronze figures of Hindu and Buddhist deities, lintels and architectural fragments in pre-Angkorian and Angkorian styles.

Objects outside every designated list: modern European and American decorative arts, prints, and 19th–20th-century ceramics and metalwork. Used to measure false alarms.