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Related content for the gallery "Room 46: Europe 1400-1800"
Related Childrens tour
A Queens Tour
Related galleries
Room 40: Europe AD 1000-1540
Room 47: Europe 1800-1900
Room 45: Waddesdon Bequest
Room 38-9: Clocks and Watches
Room 1: Enlightenment
Related highlight objects
Archer's bracer
Bacon Cup
Badge of a Grand President of the Anti-Gallican Society
Blue glass sugar bowl
Bow porcelain bowl, painted by Thomas Craft
Brass anti-slavery medal
Bronze medal of George Washington, by Pierre Simon Duvivier
Bronze tripod with three nude female figures by Pierino da Vinci (about 1531-54)
Caneware figure of Voltaire, made by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
Capodimonte porcelain ewer and basin, made by Giuseppe Gricci
Carved ivory bust of Sir Isaac Newton by David Le Marchand
Cast and chased gold medal of Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard
Cast and chased gold medal of Mary I, by Jacopo da Trezzo
Cast and chased silver medal of Cardinal Richelieu by Jean Warin
Cast and chased silver medal of Emperor Charles V, by Leone Leoni
Cast and chased silver medal of Philip II of Spain by Gianpaolo Poggini
Cast bronze medal commemorating the Pazzi Conspiracy by Bertoldo di Giovanni
Cast bronze medal of Andrea Doria, by Leone Leoni
Cast bronze medal of Christina, queen of Sweden by Massimiliano Soldani
Cast bronze medal of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Quentin Metsys (about 1462-1530)
Cast bronze medal of Giovanni Bellini by Vittorio Gambello
Cast bronze medal of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, by Gian Cristoforo Romano
Cast bronze medal of Isotta degli Atti by Matteo de' Pasti
Cast bronze medal of John VIII Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium, by Pisanello
Cast bronze medal of Leon Battista Alberti by Matteo de'Pasti
Cast bronze medal of Leonello d'Este, Marchese of Ferrara, by Pisanello
Cast bronze medal of Pietro Aretino
Cast bronze medal of Pope Julius II commemorating the building of St Peter's
Cast bronze medal of René de Birague by Germain Pilon
Cast bronze medallion of Henri IV and Marie de Medici, by Guillaume Dupré
Cast gilt bronze pax
Cast gold medal of King Charles I, by Nicolas Briot: the Dominion of the Seas
Cast gunmetal medal of Louis XIV of France by Jean Warin
Cast silver gilt medal of King Charles I by Thomas Rawlins
Cast silver plaque depicting the voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Michael Mercator
Cast, chased and soldered silver medal of the Holy Trinity, by Hans Reinhart the Elder
Chelsea porcelain 'Cleopatra' vases
Covered glass goblet
Covered glass humpen
Creamware plate decorated with a scene from Aesop's Fables
Delftware jug
Delftware punch bowl with a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender
Drinking glass with election inscription
Enamel portrait plaques of King George III and Queen Charlotte, painted by William Hopkins Craft
Enamel snuff box and cover, painted with the seated figure of John Wilkes
Enamelled gold locket, by Henri Toutin
Enamelled measuring glass (passglas)
English Delftware dish, with a scene of a merchant ship
Engraved glass (roemer)
Engraved glass goblet
Frankenthal porcelain group of figures within a pagoda, modelled by Karl Gottleib Lück
Garter Insignia of the Earl of Northampton
Georg Schweigger, The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist, a honestone relief
Gilded bronze stirrup
Gilded glass goblet
Girdle prayer book
Glass 'betrothal' goblet
Glass flask with a portrait of Henry VII, King of England
Glass goblet
Glass goblet, engraved by Frans Greenwood
Glass tankard with silver-gilt mounts
Gold acorn cup
Gold and enamelled mourning ring
Gold duit of the Dutch East India Company
Gold medal of Admiral George Anson: defeat of the French at Finisterre, by Thomas Pingo
Gold medal of Captain James Cook, by Lewis Pingo
Gold medal of Henry VIII as Head of the Church of England
Gold mourning ring with a painted eye
Gold necklace with painted enamel scenes
Gold pendant set with emeralds and diamonds
Gold 'posy' ring
Gold-mounted hardstone box by Johann Christian Neuber
Harvest jug
Headstall (bridle)
Ippolito Rombaldoni, Virgin and Child, a maiolica plaque
Ivory finger ring
Iznik ewer, with English silver-gilt mounts
Jasper portrait plaque of Dr Joseph Priestley, made by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
Maiolica dish
Maiolica dish by Giulio da Urbino
Maiolica plate
Maiolica plate with the arms of Pietro Bembo
Maiolica portrait dish
Maiolica storage jar
Malling jug
Marble figure of Anne Seymour Damer by Giuseppe Ceracchi
Marble portrait bust of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, by Joseph Wilton
Maria Theresa thaler
Memorial ring commemorating Charles I
Pair of ivory and silver-gilt covered cups
Pewter charger with the arms of England
Pewter medal of the storming of the Bastille and the Return of Louis XVI to Paris, by Bertrand Andrieu
Porcelain dessert plate
Porcelain figure of King George III
Porcelain figure of Louis XV as a warrior
Porcelain flask
Porcelain group of Pygmalion and Galatea
Porcelain plate
Porcelain wine-cooler
Presentation sword made for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Quarter repeating cylinder watch by John Leroux
Redware milk jug and cover, made by the Wedgwood factory
Revolving signet ring
Seal-die of the Muscovy Company
Set of 12 Delftware plates painted by Sir James Thornhill
Set of silver 'apostle' spoons
Silver 3 florins of the Revolt of the Austrian Netherlands
Silver 'Lima' crown (5 shillings) of George II
Silver medal of Martin Luther and Philip Melancthon
Silver medal of the Execution of Marie Antoinette, by Heinrich Conrad Küchler
Silver pattern crown (5 shillings) of Oliver Cromwell
Silver pattern crown of Charles II, by Thomas Simon (about 1623-65)
Silver 'Pine Tree' shilling of Massachusetts
Silver riksdaler of Christina, queen of Sweden
Silver rupee of Charles II
Silver sterbetaler of Sophia, Electress of Hanover
Silver-gilt cup and cover, and a sideboard dish, by Paul de Lamerie
Silver-gilt ewer and basin by Pierre Harrache
Steel breastplate
Stoneware bottle and twenty brass moulds
Stoneware bust of Prince Rupert
Stoneware jug with pewter mounts, by Jan Emens Mennicken
Stoneware tankard with the arms of the Englandfahrer trading company of Hamburg
Stove-tile with a figure of Rhetoric
Stove-tile with the arms of James I of England
Struck bronze medal of Cosimo I de' Medici by Domenico Poggini
Struck gold medal for the recovery of George III by Lewis Pingo
Struck gold medal of Charles II by John Roettier: the Increase of the Navy
Struck gold medal of James I of England (VI of Scotland) by Nicholas Hilliard
Struck silver military award for the Battle of Dunbar by Thomas Simon
Sword of Justice
Terracotta portrait bust of Oliver Cromwell by Louis-François Roubiliac
The Armada Service
The Goodricke Cup
The Marlborough ice pails
The marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxanna, a chased gold plaque made by Ishmail Parbury
The Medici Valencian vase
The More Jewels
The Phoenix Jewel
The Punishment of Tityus, a rock crystal intaglio by Giovanni Bernardi
The Seal Burse of Elizabeth I
The Twelve Sibyls enamel plaques by Léonard Limousin
Tin-glazed earthenware dish
Wax death mask of Oliver Cromwell
William Hogarth's gold admission ticket to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
Wine glass with a silver groat in the stem
Wooden panel from a cassone (marriage chest)
Worcester porcelain saucer printed with a figure of Frederick II of Prussia
Related research projects
Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum’s Collection, BMP 2007
Related tours
The art of glass
Related world cultures
Renaissance Europe
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