Artifacts - Silver - Germany Silver mug made at Augsburg. c. 1600. This piece was created about the time Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor".

Artifacts - Gold - Germany Cross in the Treasury of St. Mauritius at Munster. 11th church, religion, religious, metal, medieval, middle ages, Gothic, German, Germany, Palatine, Palatinate The Gothic style succeeded the Romanesque period. It reached it

Artifacts - Porcelain - Italy Majolica Dish 16th century Majolica is a tin-glazed pottery. It was introduced to Italy from Moorish Spain through the island of Majorca, thus its name. Italian manufacture of this earthenware is known as Fayence after Fae

Artifacts - Silver/Gold - Germany Chalice from Klosterneuburg. 14th century, (a wine cup used in the communion service). The significance of the rite in the Christian religion has its origins in the epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians

Artifacts - Porcelain - Italy Majolica Vase c. 1580 Majolica is a tin-glazed pottery similar to Fayence-ware. It was introduced to Italy from Moorish Spain through the island of Majorca, thus its name. Italian manufacture of this earthenware is known as

Artifacts - Porcelain - Italy Majolica Dish, c. 1530. Majolica is a tin-glazed pottery similar to Fayence-ware. It was introduced to Italy from Moorish Spain through the island of Majorca, thus its name. Italian manufacture of this earthenware is known a

Artifacts - Porcelain - Italy Fayence Vase c. 1580 Fayence is the French name for a style of tin-glazed porcelain remarkable for its fastness of color over hundreds of years. Italian manufacture was centered in the town of Faenza, near Bologna in Northe

Artifacts - Porcelain - Italy Majolica Salt-Cellar, c. 1540. Majolica is a tin-glazed pottery similar to Fayence-ware. It was introduced to Italy from Moorish Spain through the island of Majorca, thus its name. Italian manufacture of this earthenware is

Artifacts - Terra-cotta - Spain A Gilt Terra-cotta (baked earth) Vase from Valencia, c. 1680 Valencia was once an independent kingdom within the Iberian peninsula. Located on the Mediterranean coast it is now a province of modern Spain.

Artifacts - Relief - England A Wedgwood Cameo of a group of children or Amorini c. 1770 This form of porcelain was first manufactured in 1760 at Staffordshire, England by Josiah Wedgwood. It quickly captured a world market and remains to this day one of

Artifacts - Gold - Germany Portrait of Wenzel Jamnitzer, the famed Goldsmith of Nuremberg (1508-1586). Jamnitzer was born in the year Maximillian I became Emperor of The Holy Roman Empire and Michelangelo began to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In t

Artifacts - Porcelain - France Dish by Bernard Palissy (1509-1590) (a5) Palissy was a French Huguenot (Protestant) potter, writer and artist. He was jailed for his religion in his early years but his talent caused him to be freed into the employ of a n

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