Halloween Special: Match safe, Cairo 1893. Patinated brass. Via Cooper Hewitt

Romain des Ursins, Shaffron shaped as a dragon’s head, owned by Henry II of France when Dauphin, c.1490-1500 (redecorated 1539)

Torso of a Centaur, 1AD Copy of a Greek statue of the 2nd century B.C.

Minoan alabaster rhyton in the shape of a lioness’ head. Now in the Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete. Photo credit: Wolfgang Sauber.

Relief plaque with face of an owl, made in Egypt, 400-30 BC

Votive relief, Egyptian, 305-30 B.C. Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Antinous depicted as the Egyptian god Osiris, originally discovered in 1738-9 in Hadrian’s Villa.