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Bronze oil lamp with a leaping ibex

Bronze cart fitting

This ornamental mount has a socket at the base for a shaft, …

Bronze flower vase

This vase is roughly modelled on the type of Chinese bronze …

Chinese bronze bell

Music was an essential part of court life in ancient China a…

Arabian bronze hand

The right hand was probably a symbol of good fortune, to war…

Bronze mirror decorated with two falcons

The form of the ancient Egyptian mirror changed little from …

Bronze relic-box for a mummified falcon

Smaller mummified animals and birds were placed inside bronz…

Bronze staff in the shape of a uraeus

This unique item is thought to have been a magician's wand. …

Bronze tweezers

These tweezers are made of a single piece of metal. They clo…

Bronze bell from a Buddhist temple

Temple bells were used to announce the time of events during…

Bronze figure of a tirthankara

The Indian faith of Jainism arose at approximately the same …

Bronze mirror

This mirror is decorated with a pair of stylized birds among…

Japanese bronze mirror

Early Japanese mirrors used a number of designs based on Chi…

Bronze mirror decorated with the figure of a boatman

During the Edo period, some bronze mirrors were made with ha…

Bronze mirror in the shape of a lotus

The eight-petalled lotus is the symbol of Enlightenment in B…

Dohoko (ritual spear blade)

This bronze spear blade is said to have been excavated at Ok…

Gilt bronze mandala

This exquisite bronze mandala is an example of the Sino-Tibe…

Gilt bronze sword pommel

This gilt bronze pommel was made for a straight single-edged…

Bronze cast coin

At its greatest extent in the 3rd century BC, the Mauryan Em…

Bronze dolphin money

The Black Sea was an area of foremost importance to the Gree…

Bronze medal of George Washington, by Pierre Simon Duvivier

In March 1776, the Congress of the thirteen colonies that we…

Cast bronze medal of Baron Justus von Liebig, by David d'Angers

Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-73) was a scientist who pionee…

Cast bronze medal of shipbuilding in Germany, by Ludwig Gies

This one-sided medal by Ludwig Gies (1887-1966), a German me…

Natasha Ratcliffe, The Black Spot, cast bronze medal

This medal, entitled The Black Spot , comments on both the a…

Vita nuova: the criminal unlimited, cast bronze medal by Georgy Postnikov

This medal is an attack on the rise of Mafia-inspired crimin…

Bronze bowl handles

These handles would have been riveted onto the upper sides o…

Bronze dagger with an integral hilt and pommel

Large numbers of weapons, many of them broken or damaged, we…

Bronze figure of a worshipper

Dedications at Minoan sanctuaries often took the form of mal…

Minoan bull and acrobat

Different leaps are represented. In this version the leaper …

Bronze rattle (sistrum)

Rattles such as this were usually made of bronze, but someti…

Bronze statuette of a young man

The skill of Etruscan bronze-smiths is shown both in the ver…

Bronze statuette with two phalluses

This figure poses provocatively and sticks out his tongue. H…

Bronze wheeled vessel stand

This is one of the very few virtually complete Cypriot vesse…

Bronze female figurine

This bronze figure forms a stand which would originally have…

Bronze figure of a Sasanian king

This bronze figure represents a Sasanian king, although it i…

Bronze figurine of the god Harpokrates

This bronze figurine represents the god Harpokrates, the Gre…

Bronze helmet

This is a typical soldier's helmet from Urartu, the northern…

Bronze shield-boss

This shield boss was discovered in a tomb at Amathus in 1875…

Bronze tankard

The cuneiform text engraved on this bronze tankard is in Akk…

Copper alloy and silver buckle and belt plate

This robust belt set, designed to secure a wide leather belt…

Bronze bowl

This fine bronze dish was found with other Roman material in…

Bronze figurine of Aesculapius

The figure is Aesculapius, son of Apollo and Coronis, and th…

Bronze handle in the shape of a bird

This bronze bird head was once part of a shallow metal bowl …

Bronze model of a human head

This face is 2000 years old. He is a mature man with hair co…

Bronze oil flask

This finely cast oil flask was part of a set of bath impleme…

Horse bits from the chariot burial at Wetwang

When buried, the horse bits were probably still attached to …

Steelyard weight

This bronze weight (1200 g), for a statera , or steelyard, h…

Sword scabbard

This decorated bronze scabbard once held a long iron sword. …

Aegis of Isis

The term aegis is used in Egyptology to describe a broad col…

Bronze bowl

This bowl was made from a metal sheet, beaten into shape ove…

Bronze branding iron

Cattle were the most common domesticated animal in ancient E…