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| Stone owl figures (3200-1800 BCE) from Valdivia Culture, Ecuador at Barbier Mueller Precolumbian Art Museum. Barcelona, Spain. | Chinese bronze container in form of two owls (c1200-1100 BCE) at Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. | Chinese bronze container in form of two owls (c1200-1100 BCE) at Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. | Chinese bronze owl-shaped wine vessel (Zun) (13th-11thC BCE, Shang dynasty) at Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT. |
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| Athenian red-figure terracotta oinochoe wine vessel with armed owl (c400-390 BCE) at Louvre Museum. Paris, France. | Greek terracotta red-figure water jar (kalpis) with owl & olive branches (c480-470 BCE) from Athens at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA. | Greek terracotta oil flask in shape of owl (c630 BCE) from Corinth at Antikensammlungen. Munich, Germany. | Moche culture ceramic stirrup vessel in shape of owl-like creature with human body (100 BCE- 600 CE) from north coast of Peru at Five Continents Museum. Munich, Germany. |
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| Moche ceramic vessel in form of owl impersonator (100 BCE-500 CE) from North Coast, Peru at Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL. | Moché ceramic owl jar (100-800) at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston, TX. | Casa Grandes Babicora polychrome owl effigy jar (c1300-1400) at Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Albuquerque, NM. | Nisga'a frontlet headdress with white owl (19thC) from British Columbia at Fowler Museum. Los Angeles, CA. |
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| Zuni Pueblo earthenware owl effigy (c1880-92) from NM at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA. | Acoma Pueblo ceramic jar (1920-50) & Zuni Pueblo owl effigy (1875-80) at Colorado History Museum. Denver, CO. | Zuni ceramic owl (c1953) at Peabody Museum. Cambridge, MA. | Coconut shell & silver owl beaker (1556) from Northern Germany at RISD Museum. Providence, RI. |
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| Coconut cups with silver fittings c1530-60) from Germanic Europe in shapes of monsters & owls at Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, England. | Portrait of Malle Babbe with owl (1633-5) by Frans Hals at Berlin Gemaldegalerie. Berlin, Germany. | Owl jug marked Morley & Co., Majolica Wellsville, O. (1879-84) at Museum of Ceramics. East Liverpool, OH. | Short-eared owl figurine (1919-20) by Wilhelm Krieger for Hutschenreuther at German Hunting & Fishing Museum. Munich, Germany. |
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| Glass owl lamp (1920s) at National Museum of Cambridge Glass. Cambridge, OH. | Long-eared owl on base figurine (1937-8) by Wilhelm Neuhäuser for Allach Porzellan at German Hunting & Fishing Museum. Munich, Germany. | Owl carving (1939) by Joseph A. Coletti on Coletti addition of Quincy Public Library. Quincy, MA. | Still Life with Owls & Three Sea Urchins (Nature morte à la chouette et aux trois oursins) painting (1946) by Pablo Picasso at Picasso Museum. Antibes, France. |
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| Earthenware Owl Vase (1947-63) by Picasso at University of Missouri Museum of Art & Archaeology. Columbia, MO. | Ceramic vases painted as owls (1958) by Pablo Picasso for Atelier Madoura at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. | Opulent Owl sculpture (2006) by Steve Kestrel at Leanin' Tree Museum. Boulder, CO. | Owl from float at Mobile Carnival Museum. Mobile, AL. |
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| Second Owls Club textured surfaces & owl in round window. Tucson, AZ. | Owl of knowledge over entrance of Powell Library. Los Angeles, CA. | History of writing relief showing Arabic, ancient Greek, Chinese & Mayan glyphs carved above portal of Sterling Memorial Library. New Haven, CT. | Pair of owls on Sterling Law Building. New Haven, CT. |
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| Owl detail of Neoclassical Hopeman Memorial Carillon tower atop Rush Rhees Library (1927) at University of Rochester. Rochester, NY. | Detail of upper left corner with 1753 roots date of Sevres factory over owl & plaque with poppies on Sevres Arch at St-Germain-des-Prés. Paris, France. | Detail of upper right corner with 1900 date of arch over owl & plaque with poppies on Sevres Arch at St-Germain-des-Prés. Paris, France. | Stone owls on Merchant's building (693 Broadway at 4th St.). New York, NY. |
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| Owl carving on lamp column on Academy of Arts, Athens. Greece. | Stylized flame with sculpted owl on Harold Washington Library Center. Chicago, IL. | Owl painting by May Alcott in Louisa May Alcott's bedroom at Orchard House. Concord, MA. | Owl painting by May Alcott on mantle of Louisa May Alcott's bedroom fireplace at Orchard House. Concord, MA. |
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| Sculpture of Owl by Leonard Baskin at Smith College. Northampton, MA. | Face of Owl sculpture by Leonard Baskin at Smith College. Northampton, MA. | Owl over hourglass design in House chamber of Minnesota State Capitol. St. Paul, MN. | Sculpted owl by H.H. Kenfield n Petrified Wood Gallery. Ogallala, NE. |
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| Shelf clock with carved owls by Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Co., Winsted, Conn. at Lincoln County Historical Museum. North Platte, NE. | Law & justice & Old Testament story of good & evil by tree of life with owl on Alexander Hall on Princeton campus. Princeton, NJ. | Owl sculpture in Columbus Children's Park. Columbus, OH. | Owl-shaped music box by Fred Zimbalist at Milan Historical Museum. Milan, OH. |
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| Degenhart glass owls at Degenhart Paperweight & Glass Museum. Cambridge, OH. | Pottery ducks & owls in shop window. Vézelay, France. | University of Texas Battle Hall tiles with owl. Austin, TX. | University of Texas Battle Hall soffit carvings with owls. Austin, TX. |
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| University of Texas Union Building Arts & Sciences relief with owl, longhorn, jackrabbit, rattlesnake, cactus & other creatures. Austin, TX. | Candy counter with wheel of fortune owl in General Store at Shelburne Museum. Shelburne, VT. |
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