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Glass jug

This jug is a good example of the graceful form that is typi…
Mirror from the chariot burial at Wetwang

This iron mirror was found resting against the woman's ankle…
Sherd of painted glass

Cups made from thin, colourless glass with delicately painte…
The Kirkburn Sword

At this time in the Iron Age (300-200 BC) few people were bu…
Blue glass jug, inscribed for Thutmose III

This jug is one of the earliest Egyptian glass vessels to ha…
Bracelets of Nimlot

The archaeologist Pierre Montet (1885-1966) found some remar…
Faience and shell bead necklace

Most of the beads of this necklace are of faience, apart fro…
Glass bottle in the form of a fish

Glass vessels seem to have been primarily functional rather …
Mummy mask of Syros

Gilded mummy-masks such as this appear to have been made for…
Painted wooden figure of a crouching baboon

The baboon was associated with several deities, in particula…
Beaded pad saddle

The horse was introduced to southern Plains and Great Basin …
Blue wool shirt of Louis O'Soup, the Plains Ojibwa or Saulteaux leader

Louis O'Soup (about 1830-1913) wore this shirt when addressi…
Boy's tunic

Boys' survival is crucial for Turkmen nomads. As they grow o…
Coral and glass bead necklace

This coral and glass bead necklace has silver chains, coins,…
Hide shield with velvet and silverwork, with a lion's mane pendant

Within the Christian empire of northern and central Ethiopia…
Luboko

This small wooden double-headed object, collected by Emil To…
Scraper made of glass

Scrapers such as this were used by the Aónikenk people of so…
Silk cape (lamd)

A series of panels are suspended from the main section of th…
Smoked skin shirt belonging to Mékaisto, or Red Crow

Red Crow (about 1830-1900) was head chief of the Kainai, or …
Woman's belt buckle

This gold buckle is part of a collection of forty-four items…
Woman's jewellery

Shown here are a pair of prayer capsules ( bent ), a chest p…
Wooden stool carved by Ngongo ya Chintu

This stool was carved by an artist known as Ngongo ya Chintu…
Hanging canopy (tengai)

A canopy or tengai , hangs from the ceiling of Japanese Budd…
The bodhisattva Kannon

Kannon (Sanskrit: Avalokiteshvara) was one of the principal …
Head of Augustus

In 31 BC he defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the battle…
Brown glass jug

The jug is decorated with embedded white blobs. Most vessels…
Cobalt-blue glass model boat

This glass model boat, with its pointed bow and upright ster…
Glass bottle in the form of a fish

This glass bottle was made by blowing into a mould. New type…
Glass bowl

This glass drinking vessel was made by slumping a preformed …
Glass bowl with enamelled decoration

Bowls similar to this, decorated with enamelled animal and f…
Glass cremation urn

This glass vessel still contains cremated bones and a fragme…
Glass cup or bowl

The Egyptian motifs of the figured decoration suggest the ve…
Glass cup signed by Ennion

The cup was blown in a decorated mould that produced flutes …
Glass dropper-flask in the form of a gladiator's helmet

This flask, in the form of a gladiator's helmet, is a produc…
Glass window pane

This bluish-green window pane is made up of several pieces. …
Green glass bowl

During the reign of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus (27 BC…
Silver double-headed drinking vessel (kantharos)

This kantharos was created in the shape of two heads back-to…
Fragments of a yellowish glass flask

These are the fragments of a gilded glass flask. The gold wa…
Lacquer chest with weights and scales, for weighing jewellery

This is an elaborate toolkit for weighing jewellery. It incl…
Hedwig glass beaker

So far 14 have been recorded, all of the same squat shape wi…
Statue of Idrimi

This extraordinary statue represents Idrimi, a king of Alala…
The Sargon Vase

This unique glass jar was discovered in the nineteenth centu…
Yellowish glass flask

This small glass flask has a spherical gold-decorated body a…
Buckle

This buckle is of gilded copper alloy with punched geometric…
Cloisonné belt-buckle

Though there is no existing evidence, this splendid buckle i…
Enamelled glass mosque lamp, by Philippe Joseph Brocard

In late nineteenth-century Europe, there was a great wave of…
Engraved glass goblet

The goblet is made of clear glass with two gilded applied ba…
Glass 'betrothal' goblet

The bowl of this emerald-green 'betrothal' goblet has painte…
Glass flask with a portrait of Henry VII, King of England

On one side of the flask is a portrait medallion of Henry VI…
Glass tazza

This clear glass tazza, or footed bowl, has an armorial shie…
Glass tazza, by James Powell & Sons

The word tazza means 'cup' in Italian, but in England it is …
Glass vase, designed by Chris Lebeau

This vase is unusual both in its angular shape and in its st…
Gold belt buckle

This buckle was among the very rich grave goods recovered in…
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 mourning ring with a painted eye

Jewellery, chiefly rings and lockets, is sometimes worn in m…
Ivory finger ring

The bezel of the ring is inset with a minutely carved ivory …
Jack-in-the-Pulpit Vase, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Thomas Manderson

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was the son of the famous …
Longcase precision regulator with equation of time indicator, made by George Graham

By the early years of the eighteenth century it was realised…
Micromosaic brooch with the Lamb of God, made by the firm of Castellani

The brooch is made of glass and gold mosaic, set in enamelle…
Penannular brooch

Both men and women of rank in Ireland wore brooches of this …
Plated disc brooch

Brooches of this class are termed 'plated' because a smaller…
Purse lid from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo

Wealth, and its public display, was probably used to establi…
Shoulder clasps from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo

The shoulder-clasps are heavy and made in two halves, which …
Silver knife mount with runic inscription

This fragment of a gilded silver fitting was discovered in t…
Silver ring brooch

This handsome brooch is said to have come from the ancient r…
Table clock by Lucas Weydmann

By the mid-seventeenth century the art of making finely deco…
The Bowleaze Cove jewel

This gold and glass fitting was apparently found in a landsl…

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