Images

A celadon fish-dragon ewer. 12th century CE, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea. (National Museum of Korea, Soul, South Korea)

A celadon gourd-shaped ewer deocrated with lotus petals. 13th century CE, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea. (Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea)

A maebyeong celadon vase with lotus decoration. 12th century CE, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea)

A celadon pitcher in the form of a Taoist figure. Goryeo Dynasty, 12th century CE, Korea. (National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea)

Dancing apsara, Preah Khan, Angkor.

A block from a Roman mausoleum depicting griffins. 1st century BCE, Arausio (Orange), France. (Archaeological Museum, Orange)

A stone mask in the form of a cylops. Roman Arausio (Orange), France. 1st century CE. (Archaeological Museum, Orange)

Cave art in the Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne region, southwestern France. Dated to the Upper Palaeolithic period. It depicts a wounded aurochs bull, a man and a bird.

Horse depicted in Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne, southwestern France, dated to the Upper Paleolithic period.

A marble relief plaque depicting a ship in African waters. 2nd - 3rd century CE. (Archaeological Museum, Sagunto, Spain)