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Experimental watch by Ferdinand Berthoud

Ferdinand Berthoud was one of the leading clock, watch and c…
Front of an enamelled altar cross

This richly enamelled cross front, consists of five scenes d…
Gemellion

A gemellion is a basin used for washing hands, either before…
Gilded silver brooch

This brooch is one of a pair that is said to be from the cem…
Glass goblet

This colourless soda glass goblet is enamelled and gilt on t…
Gold belt buckle, by the Maison Boucheron

Frédéric Boucheron established his celebrated jewellery work…
Gold locket decorated with cloisonné enamel made by Alexis Falize

The arts of Japan and China proved to have an outstanding im…
Gold necklace designed and made by Eugène Fontenay

Eugène Fontenay (1823-87) was one of the foremost goldsmiths…
Gold ring inscribed with the names Dromacius and Betta

The figures of a man and a woman are engraved on the square …
Iron and silver buckle

In spite of its large size, this buckle was probably worn on…
Ivory casket with scenes from the Romances

A numbers of caskets with Romance scenes were made in the wo…
Ivory diptych with the Annunciation and the Crucifixion

This diptych is carved with two Biblical scenes. The left wi…
Ivory figure of St Margaret of Antioch

This ivory figure of St Margaret shows her miraculous delive…
Ivory mirror back with hawking scene

Ivory mirror cases were constructed in a way similar to the …
Ivory of the Virgin and Child

The curve of the elephant tusk creates the exaggerated sweep…
Marine chronometer no. 2741 by Breguet et Fils

Towards the end of the eighteenth century improvements in th…
Porcelain dessert plate

This soft-paste porcelain plate formed part of an extensive …
Porcelain figure of Louis XV as a warrior

This figure is based on a large bronze statue of Louis XV, k…
Porcelain group of Pygmalion and Galatea

This soft-paste biscuit porcelain group is based on the high…
Porcelain plate

The dark red ground of the plate is painted with Pompeian-st…
Reliquary pendant of the Holy Thorn

This reliquary is made of gold, with an exterior of amethyst…
Repeat and calendar watch by Abraham Louis Breguet, no. 65

Abraham Louis Breguet was the most celebrated of all French …
Revolving signet ring

This large, heavy ring is a masterpiece of technical virtuos…
Silver and enamel box, by Eugène Feuillâtre

This magnificent decorative box is a tour de force of the en…
Silver-gilt casket

The lid of this casket has heraldic devices which inform us …
The Holy Thorn Reliquary of Jean, duc de Berry

The thorn is displayed behind a crystal window and is identi…
The Royal Gold Cup

Agnes was imprisoned in a brothel as punishment for refusing…
The Twelve Sibyls enamel plaques by Léonard Limousin

The set of plaques depict the Twelve Sibyls, ancient prophet…
Watch by Louis Oury

Following the introduction of the balance spring to the watc…
Basse Yutz Flagons

The flagons are two of the finest examples of Early Celtic o…
Bevel-based spear tips

Throughout the late Old Stone Age or Upper Palaeolithic (abo…
Bird bone engraved with animal heads

One surface of this bone is engraved with a reindeer head fa…
Bone disc decorated with horses

This disc, only 1.5 mm thick, was cut from the shoulder blad…
Bone disc pendant

This remarkable bone disc was cut from the shoulder blade of…
Bone needles

Needles first appear in western Europe on Upper Palaeolithic…
Bone pendant decorated with an engraved drawing of a wolverine

This finely shaped piece of bone is only 1.5 mm thick. It ha…
Engraved rib

Small works of art made on bone, antler, ivory and stone are…
Fishhooks

The cave of Courbet is situated by the River Aveyron, and th…
Flint burins

Burin is the name given to a common Stone Age tool. They hav…
Harpoon tips

When a true harpoon is thrown at a fish or animal, the tip s…
Ivory figure beads

Among a number of beads that were made by perforating animal…
Leaf-shaped point

This fine leaf-shaped point, about 16,000 years old, is a ma…
Painted pebbles

These painted pebbles from Mas d'Azil are typical of an art …
Perforated baton with horse and fish engravings

The beautifully engraved horses on this baton are typical of…
Perforated baton with horse and symbol engravings

The beautifully engraved horses on this baton are typical of…
Perforated baton with low relief horse

Between about 14,000 and 10,000 year ago, many objects made …
Spear thrower carved as a mammoth

Spear throwers came into use about 18,000 years ago in weste…
Split-based spear points

These points are made of antler and are split at the base by…
Stone plaque decorated with horses

The faint lines that can just be made out on the surface of …
Swimming reindeer

The figure in front is a female with smaller body and antler…
The Prunay Vase

This type of pottery vessel is called a pedestal jar because…
Abraham Bosse, Intaglio Printing, an etching

Bosse (1602-76) was a prolific etcher of scenes from contemp…
Aubrey Beardsley, The Toilet of Salome, a design in pen and ink

This is a design for an illustration to the English edition …
Edgar Degas, Woman with Field Glasses, a drawing in thinned oil paint

This is a study for a figure that appeared in Degas' paintin…
Henri Le Roy, Le Jardin de Sauterelles et Papillons, Plate 13, an engraving

The full title of this set of fifteen prints may be translat…
Honoré Daumier, Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834, a lithograph

Through most of the nineteenth century, French political car…
Jacques Bellange, The Annunciation, an etching

In this signed etching , Mary has been interrupted at her re…
Louis Bonnet, Provoking Fidelity, a print

Fancy prints of attractive young women were popular in Paris…
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Standing Female Nude, a black chalk drawing

Prud'hon (1758-1823) was a keen revolutionary like his conte…
Ronald Searle, George Cruikshank, pen and black ink sketch, over graphite

Ronald Searle (born in 1920) is an internationally famous ca…
Trait de Sensibilité ('Act of Sensibility'), an etching with hand-colouring

The late eighteenth to early nineteenth century was the heyd…
Silver figurine of Tutela

This ornate statuette shows Tutela, a popular deity in south…
Crucifixion figure of the dead Christ

This figure of Christ is one of the most beautiful surviving…
Gold necklace with painted enamel scenes

The necklace was probably made by an enameller associated wi…
Green-glazed earthenware vase made by Théodore Deck

The second half of the nineteenth century was a time of grea…
Knives with sheath

The ritual of feasting was more formal in the Middle Ages th…
Porcelain wine-cooler

This soft-paste porcelain wine-cooler for half-bottles ( sea…
Rock crystal buckle with a silver tongue

The buckle is probably from a belt. The hoop of rock crystal…

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