Teapot, from a coffee and tea set

Designer: Robert Mallet-Stevens; Manufacturer: La Maison Desny

Cockerel and Tengu-Mask

Artist: Itō Jakuchū

Odd Fellows ceremonial sceptre

Rimmonim (Torah finial) (one of a pair)

Velvet panel

Manufacturer: Marpel/Textiles Salt

Self-Portrait

Artist: Max Beckmann

Charleston Drawing Room

Velvet panel

Manufacturer: J.B. Martin Company, Inc.

Two Oharame on the Bank of a Stream

Artist: Kitagawa Fujimaro

Bill Brandt, London

Photographer: Arnold H. Crane