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Red-figured cup, attributed to the Foundry Painter

Athletic achievement was highly valued in ancient Greek soci…
Red-figured drinking horn (rhyton), signed by the potter Sotades

Sotades was an inventive potter. One of his specialities was…
Red-figured wine bowl (calyx-krater), attributed to the Niobid Painter

The Greek myth of Pandora, the first woman, expresses the am…
Red-figured wine-cooler (psykter), signed by Douris as painter

This mushroom-shaped vessel would have been filled with wine…
Ribbed black-glaze jug (oinochoe)

The goddess Hekate was closely connected with Artemis, the h…
Silver libation bowl (phiale) with chariots

Shallow bowls such as this, with a round central boss, were …
The 'Hunt krater'

This large Corinthian column- krater (bowl for mixing wine …
White-ground jug, attributed to the Brygos Painter

The finely-dressed woman on this vase is shown in the act of…
Clay mask

This mask was found in a tomb and was designed to frighten a…
Terracotta female figurine

This fired clay female figurine comes from a tomb in the ric…
Caneware figure of Voltaire, made by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley

François-Marie Arouet, called Voltaire (1694-1778) was a cel…
Gilded glass goblet

This delicate glass is very thinly-blown and decorated only …
Ivory pyxis with St Menas

This small pyxis came from the Early Christian church of S. …
Magdeburg Panel

This panel is one of a group of sixteen ivory plaques depict…
Maiolica plate

The rim of this maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) plate is d…
Marble sarcophagus carved with scenes from the story of Jonah and the whale

This sarcophagus was found partially buried in the garden of…
Anthony van Dyck, Orazio Gentileschi, a portrait drawing

This drawing was made to prepare an engraving in a series, k…
Claude Mellan, The Sudarium, or Veil of St Veronica, an engraving

A story, not found in the Gospels, describes how a woman of …
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Sir John Hay and his sister Mary, later Mrs George Forbes, a pencil drawing

Ingres (1780-1867) won the Prix de Rome , a prestigious trav…
Raphael, The Massacre of the Innocents, a drawing, and a print by Marcantonio Raimondi after

This is a working drawing in pen and brown ink. In it we see…
William Pars, A Sepulchral Monument at Mylasa, a watercolour drawing with bodycolour

In 1764 William Pars (1742-82) was commissioned by the Socie…
Anthony Van Dyck, a study for the costume of Robert Shirley

This sketch was drawn by Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck du…
Coins from the Hoxne hoard

This celebrated treasure was unearthed in 1992. It contained…
Silver tridrachm of Gaius Caligula

There are many examples from history which show how easy for…
Bronze relief with Aphrodite and Anchises

This decorative relief from a mirror cover shows the goddess…
Red-figured cup attributed to the Kodros Painter

The decoration of both the inside and the outside of this cu…
Red-figured volute-krater attributed to the Berlin Painter

The figure scenes on this volute- krater are confined to a n…
Engraved glass goblet

The goblet is made of clear glass with two gilded applied ba…
Pair of ivory and silver-gilt covered cups

The mounting of carved ivory cylinders, or 'sleeves' in silv…
Saintonge Jug

This jug is one of a group of pots and fragments retrieved f…
Giorgio Ghisi, Allegory of Life, an engraving

This famous print is often called The Dream of Raphael , bec…
The Chaucer astrolabe

The astrolabe is a multi-functional instrument which enables…

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