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Hanging canopy (tengai)
A canopy or tengai , hangs from the ceiling of Japanese Budd…
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Hanging scroll painting with a portrait of the young Prince Shotoku Taishi
Prince Shōtoku Taishi (AD 574-622, crown prince and reg…
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Hosoda Eishi, The Chinese beauty Yang Guifei, a hanging scroll painting
Yang Guifei, the concubine of the Tang-dynasty emperor Xuanz…
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Katsushika Hokusai, Tametomo and the inhabitants of Onigashima Island, a hanging scroll painting
In 1811 the publisher Hirabayashi Shōgorō commissi…
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Lacquer cup
The cup is a shallow oval, with handles (ears) on the long s…
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Miyagawa Choshun, Pastimes of the new year and flower viewing, a pair of handscroll paintings
Although most Ukiyo-e artists concentrated on the theatre an…
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Pewter box with porcelain tea caddies
The pewter box and flat cover are made in the shape of a pru…
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Portable set for outdoor Tea Ceremony
Tea Ceremonies were often held outside, especially when comb…
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Portable shrine
Buddhist monks were often on the move, travelling between mo…
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Sword mounting in itamaki tachi style
There were two ways of carrying Japanese swords: tachi -type…
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Utagawa Toyoharu (attributed to), Courtesans of the Tamaya House, a screen painting
This rare six-fold screen can be firmly attributed to Utagaw…
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Wakizashi (companion sword) mounting
The wakizashi (companion sword) was worn at all times, insid…
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Wooden figure of the Buddha Amida
The Buddha Amida (Sanskrit: Amitabha) was the principal deit…
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Wooden head of the Buddha Amida
This head of the Buddha Amida (Sanskrit: Amitabha ), ruler o…
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Bronze knife coin inlaid with gold
This distinctive coin combines features of ancient knife mon…
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Cast and chased gold medal of Mary I, by Jacopo da Trezzo
Jacopo da Trezzo (about 1514-89) was a specialist goldsmith …
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Copy of a gold stater of Philip II of Macedon
At some point in the third century BC, the Celtic peoples of…
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Didcot hoard
Hoards of Roman coins are quite common in Britain - over 120…
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Dinars of Toghril Beg and Malik Shah
Toghril Beg (1040-63) was the first sultan of the Great Selj…
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Fatimid dinar and a Crusader besant
When the Muslim Fatimid dynasty (909-1171) came to power in …
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Four gold ducats of the Sforza dukes of Milan
Realistic, characterized portraiture on coin designs was the…
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Gold 4-excelentes of Ferdinand and Isabella and silver 4-reales of Charles and Joanna
The lure of gold drew many explorers into the Americas, and …
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Gold 5 unites of King Charles I ('Juxon Medal'), probably from dies engraved by Abraham Vande
This unique piece hovers between being a coin and a medal. I…
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Gold ashrafi coin of Süleyman the Magnificent
The forty-six year reign (AD 1520-66) of Sultan Süleyman 'th…
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Gold augustale of Emperor Frederick II, as king of Sicily
In the early Middle Ages most of western Europe had been con…
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Gold aurei of Nero
The coinage of the earlier Roman Empire allows us to study t…
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Gold aurei with portraits of the young Faustina II
Roman ladies of the imperial court were keen followers of fa…
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Gold aureus consecration coin of Septimius Severus
Septimius Severus (reigned AD 193-211) was coincidentally th…
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Gold aureus of Aurelian
When Aurelian became emperor in AD 270, the Roman world was …
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Gold aureus of emperor Caligula
This coin was made in Rome in the first century AD, but was …
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Gold aureus of emperor Claudius
For the ancient Romans, Britain was on the edge of the known…
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Gold aureus of emperor Marcus Aurelius, set in a gold ring
In modern Britain, a gold sovereign set in a finger ring or …
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Gold aureus of Octavian
It must be hard to be an emperor and a republican at the sam…
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Gold aureus showing Trajan's Column
The monumental column of the emperor Trajan (AD 98-117) is o…
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Gold aureus with a facing portrait of Postumus
The use of the portrait is the most persistent and usually t…
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Gold coin in the name of Tincomarus
In the later first century BC, the rulers of southern Englan…
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Gold coins and ingots from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
One of the most famous groups of objects in the British Muse…
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Gold croesid coin
His royal capital was at the city of Sardis in what is now c…
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Gold daric coin
In 550 BC Cyrus the Great founded the Achaemenid Persian Emp…
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Gold dinar coin
This dinar was struck in the highlands of Yemen, ruled at th…
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Gold dinar of Ardashir I
Ardashir defeated the Parthians in AD 224 and founded the Sa…
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Gold dinar of caliph Abd al-Malik
The reform involved substituting any images on the coins for…
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Gold dinar of Harun al-Rashid
The c Abasid caliph of Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid (reigned AD …
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Gold dinar with a standing caliph
The centre of this coin has an image which may represent the…
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Gold coin of Kumaragupta I
The Gupta dynasty gold coin was named the dinara after the R…
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Gold dinara coin of Kumaragupta I
The main purpose behind the choice of Gupta coin designs see…
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Gold quarter dinar and a tari of Roger II
The island of Sicily first came under Muslim rule in AD 827.…
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Gold franc-à-cheval of John II, king of France
This coin, the first French franc, owes its name to the poli…
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Gold heaume of Louis II, count of Flanders
The gold coinage of Louis II of Flanders (1346-84) rivalled …
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Gold hyperperon of Emperor Manuel I Comnenus
In the twelfth century the emperors of the Comnenian dynasty…
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Gold imitation dinar of Offa
This unique gold coin of Offa, king of Mercia, is one of the…
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Gold imitation of a Byzantine coin found in China
Gold imitations of Byzantine solidi have been found at vario…
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Gold mancus of Ethelred II
Of the few Anglo-Saxon gold coins that have survived from th…
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Gold medallion of Constantius I Chlorus
In AD 296 Britain was again annexed to the Roman Empire afte…
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Gold medallion showing Constantine the Great at prayer
Constantine's reign (AD 306-337) marks a turning point in Ro…
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Gold mohur (coin) of Shah Jahangir, with his portrait
The Mughal historian Muhammad Hashim Khafi Khan records that…
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Gold mohur of Jahangir with a portrait of his father Akbar
Special presentation coins ( nazarana ) and coin-like commem…
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Gold pavillon of Edward the Black Prince, as Prince of Aquitaine
During the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) King Edward III of …
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Gold pavillon of Philip VI
France was the first kingdom in western Europe to introduce …
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Gold pendant with designs copied from a Kushan coin and a Roman coin
Although, at first sight, this pendant appears to be a singl…
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Gold Ramatanka charm
In India coins are seen as symbols of good fortune as well a…
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Gold saluto of Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples and Sicily
The French prince, Charles of Anjou took power in the kingdo…
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Gold solidus of Charlemagne
In the mid- to late eighth century the Frankish kingdom deve…
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Gold solidus of Empress Irene
Irene (reigned 797-802) holds a unique place in Byzantine hi…
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Gold solidus of Justinian I
Although the Western Roman Empire is generally seen as endin…
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Gold solidus of Magnus Maximus
Magnus Maximus (ruled AD 383-8) a military commander in Roma…
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Gold solidus of Theodobert I
After the fall of Rome in AD 476, the Eastern Roman Empire s…
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Gold stater ('Gallo-Belgic A' type)
This is a superb example of the Iron Age die-engraver's art.…
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