Isis with the Child Horus, Egypt, around 664 – 340 BCE, bronze. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Shard with palmette, Hellenistic, Apulian-red figure, 2nd half 4th century BCE, Clay. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Aphrodite, South Italian, 2nd half 4th/3rd Century BCE, clay. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Small Flask, Iran, 8th/9th century, light green glass. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Bottle with pseudo-arabic ribbon and cranes in medallions, Chinese export porcelain in Kraak style for the Islamic market, China, Ming Dynasty, late 16th century. Porcelain, cobalt blue under the glaze, engraved decoration. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Plate with sheet and pseudo-Chinese script in Chinese Kraak style, with pseudo branding on the ground in Chinese style, Iran, Safavid dynasty, 17th century, Quartz frit, cobalt blue under the glaze faience. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Cithrinchen by Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, Germany 1688. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Export porcelain for the European market, China, Kangxi period, around 1700, Porcelain. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
tsuba, Japan, ca. 1700, Iron, brass, copper alloy (sentoku). Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Teapot, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Germany, early 18th century, Böttger stoneware. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Johann Joachim Kretzschmar (?): August the Strong, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Germany ca. 1715, Clay. Courtesy of Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Drinking bowl and lower shell, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Germany around 1725, Porcelain. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Gaspard Duché de Vancy: Boxes for the sea transport of plants, Aquarell 1735, manuscript Ms. 1546/14. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris
Model by Johann Joachim Kändler, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Germany, around 1745, Porcelain. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Portrait bust of the Hamburg merchant Johann Hinrich Dimpfel, Hamburg, Germany, 1747, Ivory. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Clutch bag, Germany, mid-18th century, Silk, silver thread effect technique, silver strap. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Figurine, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Germany, mid-18th century, Porcelain. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Shell, Wedgwood, Staffordshire, England, 18th century, Black basalt ware. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Shard with chinoiserie, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Germany, 18th century, porcelain. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Set, Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres, Sèvres, France, 1769, Porcelain. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Bowl, Wedgwood, Staffordshire, England, late 18th century, Black Basalt Ware. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Lamp stand, frieze with children playing blind man’s buff, modeled by John Flexman, Wedgwood, Staffordshire, England, around 1800 (?), Jasperware. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
John Kay: Touissant Louverture, Edinburgh, 1802, Radierung. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Jacques Louis David: Portrait of Suzanne le Pelletier de Saint-Fargeau, France, 1804, oil on canvas
Jacques Dessalines: Constitution d’Haïti. 20 mai 1805. Courtesy of Bibliothèque nationale de France
Statuette of an Egyptian, France (?), early 19th century, Porcelain. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Empire coffee set with Egyptian decor, Manufacture Giustiniani, Naples, Italy, around 1820. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Gag, Brazil, 19th century. Iron. Courtesy of Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo.
Scarf, Kashmir, India, 1820-40, Basic fabric: twill, goat wool, Pattern fabric: Weaving composed of several parts, goat wool. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Embroidery, Germany, 1800-1830, horse hair. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Packing the Porcelain; c. 1825; Guangzhou; China; Gouache on paper; Peabody Essex Museum; Photo: Jeffrey R. Dykes MIT © 2009 Visualizing Cultures
Postcard, 19th century. Private collection
Letter written and signed by Pedro Peycke, April 15th, 1832. Courtesy of Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (APEB) (1820-1869), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Jacquard-woven picture “A la memoire de J.M. Jacquard” after the original by C. Bonnefond, Lyons, France, 1839, silk Courtesy the Science Museum London
Alfred Edward Chalon: Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace, England, 1840, Watercolour. Courtesy of the Science Museum London
The general plan of Mr. Babbage’s Great Calculating Engine. Arrangement and rack, details, et cetera (The Babbage Papers), England, 1840. Science Museum London
Medaillon, Germany, 19th century. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Hercules Sägemann Advertisement, Heinrich Schroeder´s Kunstanstalt Nürnberg, around 1850, Color printing. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Farmhouse cupboard, Vierlanden near Hamburg, Germany, 19th Century, Wood, photography by Wilhelm Weimar, 1906, Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Articles in Gutta Percha by the Gutta Percha Company, The Great Exhibition, London, England, 1851, photography by Claude-Marie Ferrier. Courtesy the Royal Collection Trust
Postcard, Egypt, 19th century. Private collection
Rechaud, Europe, around 1860. porcelain. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Model of a Jacquard loom (Scale 1:2), unknown maker, England, 1867, (copper, zinc alloy), cardboard, cotton (fibre), ivory, mahogany (wood), wood (unidentified) and wrought iron. Courtesy the Science Museum London
Ivory warehouse of Hamburg’s walking-stick factory »Heinrich Christian Meyer jr.« at Großen Grasbrook, Hamburg, Germany, around 1870. Courtesy of the Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg
Figure, Congo, 19th century, Ivory. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Adolph von Menzel: “Indian Cafe” at the World’s Fair in Vienna, 1873. Bodycolour on paper. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Double door of a cupboard, India, Kashmir, late 19th century, wood with lacquer painting and gold. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Ernst Ohlmer: Imperial summer palace in China (Beijing), destructed 1860, China, 1873. Photography on album paper. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek. © bpk-Bildagentur
Josef Löwy/ Wiener Photographen-Association: World’s Fair 1873. (Nr. 525: Native-American Wigwam), photography, Wien, Österreich, 1873. (c) Wien Museum Online Collection
Page from the walking stick product catalogue of the Heinrich Christian Meyer jr. company; rubber walking sticks with ivory handles, ca. 1875. Courtesy the Hamburg Museum of Work
Opium pipe, China, late 19th century, Lacquer, ivory, metal. Private collection
Photography by Hippolyte Arnoux, Egypt, late 19th century. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Opium pillow, China, late 19th century, Porcelain. Private collection
Textile, Japan, Meiji period, late 19th century, silk. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Black glass, white, wavy tight pattern. Possibly from the collection Pauly, then: modern/Jugendstil manufactory Heuberg-Lichte. Without inventory number. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Paperboard with hair braid samples, Germany, late 19th Century. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Okimono, Japan, Meiji-Period, late 19th century, Ivory. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Carved Tusk, Congo, Late 19th Century, Ivory. Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Carlo Bugatti. Mailand, Italy, 1888 – 1895. Material. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Rolling Music Box with additional percussion idiophones, Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, around 1895. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Hermann Haase: Various aquarelle depicting rural life, Vierlande near Hamburg, Germany, around 1900. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
beaker with a portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm and the outline of the battleship, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, around 1900, pewter. Private Collection
First transatlantic cable of the German-Atlantic Telegraph Company, Emden – Borkum – Azores – New York, 2-core telegraphic sea cable, 1900, Metals, textiles, plastics. Courtesy of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication
Wilhelm Weimar, Sword accessories and Tsuba, Hamburg, Germany, ca. 1902, glass negative. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Book with notes by Shinkichi Hara, Hamburg, Germany, early 20th Century. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Tapestry by Carlotta Brinckmann, Scherrebek, Germany, early 20th century, wool, cotton chain. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Oversized comb for advertising purposes, Hercules Sägemann (New York Hamburger-Gummi Waaren Compagnie), Hamburg, Germany, early 20th century, Ebonite (natural rubber). Courtesy of the Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg
Reticello glass, Venice, Italy, 20th Century. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Construction of the Baghdad railway, passage with Km 35, Toprakkale/Alexandrette, photography presumably by engineer G. E. Ott. Turkey, 1913. © BBWA U 5/3 Bildarchiv der Philipp Holzmann AG / Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie e.V. www.holzmann-bildarchiv.de
© BBWA U 5/3 Bildarchiv der Philipp Holzmann AG / Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie e.V. www.holzmann-bildarchiv.de
Photograpy of Shinkichi Hara, Hamburg, early 20th Century. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Mosque in the Halbmondlager (Crescent Moon Camp), Wünsdorf bei Zossen (Brandenburg), Germany, photograph nr. 10 from the “Album de la Grande Guerre,” photographer unknown, 1915. Central State Archives, Sofia
Hermann Struck: Samba Diallo, from the series “Kriegsgefangene” (prisoners of war), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen) 1915 – 1916, Lithography. Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Photo: Jens Ziehe
Plaster cast of the »Great Sitter« (»Enthroned Goddess«)(Original: Tell Halaf, Nordeast-Syria, 9th century BCE (at Pergamon Museum Berlin)), Berlin, Germany, early 20th century, Plaster. Courtesy of the Gipsformerei der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Catalogue with Kimono patterns of the department store Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, early 20th century. Courtesy of Takashimaya Historical Museum/ Takashimaya Archives, Osaka
Entrance to Tell Halaf Museum within a former machine factory, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany, 1930ies. Courtesy of Max Freiherr von Oppenheim-Stiftung, Hausarchiv des Bankhauses Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie., Köln
“Felicia Felix-Mentor, the Zombie”, in: Zora Neale Hurston: Tell My Horse. Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, 1938
Mizoguchi Kenji (溝口 健二): Osaka Elegy (浪華悲歌, Naniwa ereji), 1938
Erzulie Dantor, depicted on a Vodoun Banner, Haiti, mid- 20th century, sequins and beads on fabric. Courtesy of Martina Kudláček
Photography by Pierre Verger, Bahia, Brasil, 1940ies. Courtesy of the Instituto Lina Bo e P. M. Bardi, São Paulo
Katherine Dunham and Company performs West Indian Creole music in form of ballet, at the Cambridge Theatre, London, England, 1952. copyright British Pathé
Ace Tone Rhythm Ace FR-1, drum machine, designed by Ikutaro Kakehashi, Japan 1967. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, HA.com
“Styling Pik”, Antonio’s Manufacturing Inc., Cresson, Pennsylvania/USA, 1972, plastic, metal.
Filmstill by: John Coney: Space is the Place, USA, 1974. © North American Star System Production & Rapid Eye Movies
Welcoming the “Münsterland” in the port of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 1975. Courtesy of Hapag-Lloyd AG, Hamburg
Postcard of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa – Cudowny Obraz Matki Bożej Jasnogórski, Pland, 1982. Private Collection
Poster for Keith Haring’s exhibition at Tony Shafrazi Gallery (New York) December 3, 1983 to January 7, 1984. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Coat, Issey Miyake Tokio, Japan, A/W 1985. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
England, 1985. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Stone with barnacles, collected by Charles Lim Yi Yong, Singapore, 2017. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Natural rubber, Brasil, late 20th Century. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Plate depicting the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Safi, Morocco, 2003, ceramic. Courtesy of Ahmed Salmann
Commemorative bowl with abolitionist motifs, Waterford Wedgwood. Staffordshire, England, 2007, green and black Jasperware. Private collection
Alexander McQueen, lady’s coat, London, England, Pre-Fall 2009. Woolen material, tumbled, roughened, (75% wool, 25% cashmere), patterned silk fabric, silk chiffon. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Top from Comme des Garçons, Japan, 2010s. Polyester. Private collection
Allan Sekula, 2010-, Football signed by Pelé. Courtesy of M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), Antwerp
Porto-Novo, Benin. Photgraph by Romuald Hazoumé, 2010. Courtesy the artist
Bowl, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, 2014, Clay. Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
From the series: Black Helvécia, Dom Smaz, Helvécia, Brazil, 2015. Courtesy the artist
Display, Chinese National Museum, Beijing, 2016.
Animal figurine, Venice, Italy, 2017, murano glass. Private Collection
Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
Plaster cast of a bronze Head of a Queen Mother (Iyoba Idia), Kingdom of Benin (original: 16th century), plaster, 2018. Collection Johann Jacobs Museum
coarse-toothed travel comb No. 372 WW – 62WW · 3½”, Germany 2018, Ebonite (natural rubber). Private Collection
