Jar, 16th century. Glazed stoneware with four monster-head bosses below rim, mythological animals with cloud and flame motifs finely painted in underglaze-blue cobalt-oxide and overglaze enamels, with inset, reticulated, bisque-fired roundels with cranes,...

Dish, 15th – 16th century, 2 7/8 x 14¼ inches, 2000.111. Birmingham Museum of Art Vietnam created the most sophisticated ceramics in Southeast Asia. Though they borrowed from China, Vietnamese potters explored their own indigenous tastes and developed...

Profile of a Man Crowned with Laurel, ca. 1506-08, red chalk with pen and brown ink on laid paper, 168 x 125 mm, inv. no. 15575. BIRMINGHAM, Al.- The Birmingham Museum of Art opened one of the most significant groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci will...