Card receiver  c. 1880
Meriden Britannia Company
Meriden, Connecticut
Ruth Asawa
Freestanding Baskets
SFO Museum
Cloud Mountain  1982–83
Akari Ceiling Model 100D
Isamu Noguchi (1904–88)
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
Stepping Out: Shoes in World Cultures
SFO Museum
Symphonic Dances golden yellow dress with attached leotard  2012
Costume designer: Mark Zappone
Courtesy of San Francisco Ballet

Caring Mother  c. 2005

Tapiwa Jiri (b. 1974)

Harare, Zimbabwe

opal stone

SFO Museum Courtesy of Marilyn Petersen

Centerpiece  1900

Loetz Austria

glass, bronze

Courtesy of Age of Elegance, Mill Valley, California

Maneki neko group  late 19th–20th centuries 
Mingei International Museum
Griffin pedestal  c. 1870s–80s

Courtesy of Michaan’s Auctions, Alameda, CA

Dire wolf skull (Canis dirus)
La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angels County
Collection of the California Academy of Sciences


(detail)Teapot Goblet  1988
Richard Marquis (b. 1945)
blown glass, zanfirico technique
created on Whidbey Island, Washington


Amelia Anckarström gown worn by Julianna Di Giacomo in Un Ballo in Maschera  2014

Designed by John Conklin (b. 1937)

Costume by San Francisco Opera Costume Workshops

Courtesy of San Francisco Opera

California quail (Callipepla californica)
Detail
Collection of the California Academy of Sciences

LONGHORN BEETLE

Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley.

The Princess amphora portrait vase 1894–95
Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia
porcelain, glaze

Hand-painted fire screen  c. 1880

unknown manufacturer

England

glass, metal, paint

SFO Museum Courtesy of Brian D. Coleman

Recollections… from the Unknown Museum

The Good Companion Model T  1951
previously owned by John Lennon

Curiosity and Discovery: Antique Scientific Instruments

SFO Museum

Red diamond rattlesnake skeleton (Crotalus ruber)
Riverside County, CA


Woman petting a gazelle  c. 1930s
Pierre Le Faguays (1892–1962) / pseudonym: Fayral
France
bronze


 Fan  late 1800s
Lace Museum, Sunnyvale, CA


Dinner gong with sparrow  c. 1885

unknown manufacturer 

England

brass, copper 

SFO Museum Courtesy of Brian D. Coleman

The Art of the African Instrument

Drum (ogbin obatala), Nigeria, Ijebu-Yoruba peoples

SFO Museum

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