These tea wares are exquisite examples of Chinese porcelain made for the western market during the mid-18th century, before direct trade had opened up with America.

This toy airplane was made in Allied-occupied Germany between 1945 and 1949.

The "Reward of Virtue," one of the earliest board games published in America, is closely based on the English game "Reward of Merit," invented by George Fox and published by John Harris and John Wallis in London in 1801. Both are moral games in which players race around a track with 36 or 37 squares of rewards and forfeits and aim to be the first to reach the "Reward of Virtue."

This doll was made in December 1941 as a portrait of three-year-old Alessandra Lucci. It was a gift from Alessandra's grandmother, Phyllis Goodhue Konta (1890-1975), to her mother Anne Marie Cecil Lucci (1913-1973), who had a particular interest in dolls and puppets. The dollmaker, Dewees Cochran, was one of the most prolific American doll artists of the twentieth century. She began fashioning dolls to sell in New York City stores in 1933. Her first "Portrait Dolls" were hand-modeled, each a unique likeness of the subject. They sold for $85 and became trendy among wealthy New Yorkers. In 1939, Cochran streamlined her line of portrait dolls by designing four basic head molds to represent the four types of American children's faces. She trained assistants to select the head shape, paint the mouth, eyebrows, and coloring, and fit the proper wig. In 1939, Saks Fifth Avenue advertised the Dewees Cochran portrait dolls as "a perfect Easter gift." The artist typically executed the "portrait" after a photograph, for a cost of $25.