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Cast bronze medal of Pietro Aretino

Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was a great celebrity of the sixt…
Cast bronze medal of Pope Julius II commemorating the building of St Peter's

Although traditionally attributed to the leading Renaissance…
Cast bronze medal of René de Birague by Germain Pilon

Germain Pilon (about 1525-90) was a monumental sculptor whos…
Cast bronze medallion of Henri IV and Marie de Medici, by Guillaume Dupré

The period preceding the coronation of Henri IV (1553-1610) …
Coins from the Tigris hoard

The Tigris hoard is named after the River Tigris in southern…
Gilt bronze medal of George IV by Benedetto Pistrucci

The Regency style, a type of design based on the architectur…
Gold medal of Henry VIII as Head of the Church of England

The importance of having a male successor to the Tudor dynas…
Ian Hamilton Finlay and Nicholas Sloan, Terror.Virtue, a cast bronze medal

Ian Hamilton Finlay (born 1925) is one of several leading Br…
Silver frosted bronze medal of St. Thomas's Hospital, by William Wyon: The Cheselden Medal

William Cheselden (1688-1752) was one of the leading and mos…
Bone spectacle fibula (brooch)

Votive offerings have been found in the area of the foundati…
Bronze axe-head

This elaborate bronxe axe-head, decorated with palmettes and…
Bronze bowl (lebes)

This large and elaborately decorated bronze bowl was used as…
Bronze candelabrum with the figure of a warrior

In the ancient world light was usually provided by lamps fil…
Bronze casket (cista) with an incised scene of Bellerophon and Pegasus

This bronze casket ( cista ) was used primarily to hold a la…
Bronze crested helmet

This remarkable bronze helmet was made in Etruria, but based…
Bronze diploma granting citizenship to Marcus Papirius

The bronze diploma comprises two inscribed sheets of bronze,…
Bronze figure of a cow

Following the discovery of the ancient Roman cities of Hercu…
Bronze figure of a running girl

Athletes in the Greek world were mostly male, and a running …
Bronze figure of Nike, goddess of victory

Nike is shown here running forwards. Her right foot is place…
Bronze figures of mounted Amazons

These small bronze figures of mounted Amazon are two of four…
Bronze figurine of a lictor (magistrate's attendant)

The figurine shows a lictor , one of the officials who accom…
Bronze figurine of Hermes

The wide-brimmed petasos (sun hat) probably identifies this …
Bronze gladiator's helmet

This bronze helmet is said to have been found in the gladiat…
Bronze goose

This goose was once a lamp lid. Similar lids with figures in…
Bronze griffin head

This hollow-cast griffin head was originally attached to the…
Bronze head from a full length portrait

During the Hellenistic period portrait types were created to…
Bronze head of a young man

This hollow-cast bronze head came from a life-sized statue t…
Bronze helmet with an inscription of Hieron I

Syracuse was a Greek colony founded by Corinth, and between …
Bronze horse and rider

This bronze horse and rider is one of the earliest pieces of…
Bronze lampstand

The bronze shaft and tripod feet of this lampstand are cover…
Bronze mirror case with Aphrodite and Pan

In Greece and Etruria mirrors were almost always made of bro…
Bronze mirror with Eos and Kephalos in relief

Elaborate bronze mirrors were produced in large numbers in G…
Bronze phallic wind chime (tintinabulum)

Bronze wind chimes like these were hung up in gardens and po…
Bronze reclining banqueter

This smiling banqueter is shown reclining on a couch in a ty…
Bronze stand with openwork decoration

The 'women at the window' theme was popular in Phoenician iv…
Bronze statue of a goose

This life-sized image of a goose was found on the site of th…
Bronze statue of a young woman

This half life-sized bronze figure is said to have been foun…
Bronze statuette of a reclining banqueter

Feasts, with music and entertainment, were important in Etru…
Bronze statuette of a warrior

In 1836 a chance find revealed many votive bronzes in and ar…
Bronze strigil with handle in form of a girl

This large bronze strigil is very unusual in having a handle…
Decorative reliefs from a cuirass

These two embossed bronze reliefs probably formed part of th…
Gold-plated bracelets with rams' head terminals

These bracelets, made of gold-plate, were probably made loca…
Gold-plated spirals, probably earrings

These spirals of gold-plated bronze terminate in horned grif…
Pair of bronze headrest supports (fulcra) from a couch

These bronze attachments would originally have decorated the…
Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede, The Prayer for Peace, bronze

Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede was born in June 1943 in Ekiti, within…
Brass belt-clasp

Brass belt claps of this distinctive kind have only been fou…
Bronze arrowhead of Ada

This bronze arrowhead bears an inscription of a common type …
Bronze axe-head

The style of this cast bronze axe-head links it to the regio…
Bronze bowl with Egyptian motifs

In January 1849 the excavator, Henry Layard, made a remarkab…
Bronze figure of a winged bull

This bronze figure of a winged bull was probably part of the…
Bronze figure of Baal

This figure is typical of bronzes from Syria in the second h…
Bronze figurine of a horse and rider

This is a rare representation of a Persian horseman. He wear…
Bronze figurine of a warrior, probably a deity

This bronze figurine wears a broad belt fastened in front wi…
Bronze furniture attachment

This bronze object was acquired in 1877 by the archaeologist…
Bronze hand

This bronze hand was an offering left in a temple as a pious…
Bronze harness ring

This object is among a variety of elaborate metal horse-trap…
Bronze head of Pazuzu

Pazuzu was an Assyrian and Babylonian demonic god of the fir…
Bronze horse-bit with decorated cheek-pieces

The region of Luristan in western Iran saw a rich tradition …
Bronze incense burner

This incense burner was made by casting bronze on a clay cor…
Bronze lion's foot

This large bronze foot (one of two discovered) comes from To…
Bronze pin decorated with an image of a goddess

Elaborately decorated bronze pins of this kind are linked st…
Bronze standard finial

The region of Luristan was home to a rich tradition of bronz…
Bronze sword

This bronze sword was allegedly found in western Iran which …
Copper figure from Jezzine

This figure was said to have been found in a hoard four kilo…
Head of Pazuzu

The face of the ancient Mesopotamian god Pazuzu was said to …
Inscribed bronze ass

During the first millennium BC and into the Roman period a p…
Inscribed cast bronze tablet

This cast bronze tablet was probably placed in a temple as a…
Lion weight

This cast tin-bronze lion weight was discovered in western A…

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