This lapis lazuli vessel is the work of one of a famous dynasty of Milanese lapidaries, and a market rarity

Two liveried servants bear trays of food in this charming 18th-century tile painting attributed to Vicente Navarro

This unpublished Book of Hours was possibly illustrated by three of the most original artists working in Paris in the 15th century

Ori Gersht meticulously recreated a Fantin-Latour, flash froze it and then blew it up, in order to capture a moment of destruction

Large Sawos totemic figures such as this were hung on cult houses and dwellings to represent powerful ancestral forces

This rare example of a Dutch doll’s house contains almost 200 unique silver miniatures and Chinese porcelain dated around 1700

Ukrainian avant-garde artist Anatoly Petritsky, designed various productions in Kharkov in the 1920s, including Puccini’s Turandot

Representations of and allusions to the six rivers and their associated classical poems were popular among Edo printmakers in Japan

Wolfgang Heimbach, once a court painter to Frederick III, captures the rich incidental detail of this rustic laundry scene

These 16th-century alabaster putti have been attributed to one the greatest Spanish Renaissance sculptors, Alonso Berruguete

This etching of a woman beside a stove, part of a group made in the 1650s, may be Rembrandt’s finest print of a nude

This carving was part of a colossal figure carved with the likeness of King Amenhotep IV that once adorned an 18th Dynasty temple

This Mongolian bronze features a benevolent Buddhist divinity embracing his consort symbolising the merging of wisdom and compassion

Clare Belfrage’s technique involves drawing with fine threads of cane glass across blown glass forms to produce dramatic works

This unusual 16th-century portrait of a finely dressed black woman by Annibale Carracci comes with an impressive provenance

This early watercolour study by John Sell Cotman of the interior of Norwich Cathedral comes to the market in exceptional condition

This hitherto unpublished Courbet painting of a familial scene may include a depiction of the artist’s mistress Virginie Binet

This impressive panel painting by Jorges Inglés was once part of an elaborate altarpiece commissioned by the Marqués de Santillana