Butcher's trade sign
This butcher's shop counter sign is made of papier mache. It is shaped as a pig, standing four-square on a painted plinth. The base is probably not the original. It comes from Northern Europe, and dates ...
Canada Goose decoy
This is a polychrome pine floating goose decoy, detailed with stylised plumage. Decoys were carved and painted by hunters, who set out to capture the essence of a bird rather than creating precise ornithological ...
Canada Goose flying decoy
This is a painted pine decoy model of a goose, with its neck extended and wings outstretched. It is made from two straight-edged pieces of wood and painted in black and white. The eyes are made from tacks ...
Canine Friends
This is an oil painting on canvas of two dogs and was painted by the English Provincial School about 1870. At this time, paintings of horses and hounds were more usually by professional artists, and paintings ...
Carousel Pig
This is a cast iron carousel pig with a piebald hide. It was modelled running and then mounted onto its stand at a later date. This may have been one of a number of farm animals on a steam-driven fairground ...
Carousel Pig - detail of front
This is a cast iron carousel pig with a piebald hide. It was modelled running and then mounted onto its stand at a later date. This may have been one of a number of farm animals on a steam-driven fairground ...
Carousel Pig - detail top of head
This is a cast iron carousel pig with a piebald hide. It was modelled running and then mounted onto its stand at a later date. This may have been one of a number of farm animals on a steam-driven fairground ...
Cartridge sign
This hollow painted metal sign, shaped as a shotgun cartridge with inscription, would have been designed for a gunsmith's or armourer's shop. It has a built-in wrought-iron bracket support. It dates from ...
Chestnut roaster
This is an iron chestnut roaster, with a drum-shaped receptacle. The sides and cover of the drum have lozenge-shaped and circular pierced vents. The handle has a baluster turned grip. To lift the lid, ...
Child's commode chair
This green-painted wooden commode chair has solid sides with upswept arm terminals. The front has a tray-top section, and the whole shaped front hinges open. The seat inside has a circular hole. It is ...
Child's Wheelbarrow
This is a child's painted wheelbarrow which has a red background with cream lozenge shapes on the sides and a heart shape on the front.
The stanctions (legs), base and wheel are later replacements, ...
Circular occasional table
This small table has a dished sycamore and maple top on a ring-turned column and three arched splayed legs made of ash and beech. It is possibly American, and dates from the early 19th century. Height ...
City Fouler's Mark
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a shooting scene, and is inscribed across the top 'City Fouler's Mark'. Another inscription across the bottom reads 'Against the wind he prudent takes his way, ...
Cobbler's sign
This cobbler's or shoe shop sign is made of painted wood and wrought iron. A silhouette shoe in shape, it is inscribed 'Lile Clog Shop' on both sides. It has a joined scrolling iron bracket. The sign ...
Cockerel weathervane
This is a zinc and iron weathervane in the form of a cockerel - one of the earliest and most enduring designs used on church spires throughout Europe. It is symbolic, indicating not only the wind but ...
Coffee pot trade sign
This brass coffee shop sign is shaped as a large coffee-pot with a faceted baluster body. It has a separate lid. It come from Northern Europe, and dates from the late 19th century. Height 460 mm (including ...
Comb-back Windsor armchair
This ash chair has a perched toprail, arms with spindle gallery and four splayed legs. The back is longer than the legs. It comes from England's West Country and date from the late 18th or early 19th ...
Comb-back Windsor armchair
This primitive ash chair has a small bar toprail, an oak square-section armbow and splayed legs joined by stretchers, which may be a later addition. The back legs are much closer to each other than the ...