The Last Supper: Steak and Kidney
Damien Hirst (born 1965) The Last Supper: Steak and Kidney, 1999 Screenprint on paper 1680mm x 1170mm This print is from Hirst’s The Last Supper, a series of 13 prints which uses the graphics of pharmaceutical ...
The Royal Ratcatcher
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting the Royal Ratcatcher in a kitchen scene. Painted on the bottom right is a signature which can be read as 'J. Mark' or 'J Clark', but the date is unknown. ...
The West Bromwich Sweep
This is a watercolour on paper depicting a prize fighter. A caption at the bottom reads 'WEST BROMWICH SWEEP As he appeared at george Holdens after his fight with fred higgitt being waited on by Jem Parker ...
Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - men enjoying wine and fruit, title-page of part 2.
Characters in Shakespeare enjoyed an arbour in their garden scenes.
The practice of enjoying the out-of-doors over a simple meal, or a drink out-of-doors on a summer’s evening may have been the ...
Three Sober Preachers
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting three preachers seated at a table drinking, and was painted by an artist of the English School about 1860. Three inscriptions behind the preachers read, 'I, ...
Three-legged dog toasting fork - side
This is a downhearth polychrome carved wooden dog toaster, on three legs with iron feet. The dog's muzzle is fitted with a twin-tined prong. The toasting fork is English, from the later 18th or early ...
Toast Master's Glass
Drinking glass, c.1770-1780, with a straight-sided bowl. The bowl is covered entirely with shallow cutting. The stem is single-knopped and made of cut glass. The foot is cut across the entire width and ...
Toasting Glass
Drinking glass with a narrow funnel bowl, which is fluted full-length with prominent raised flutes. It has an opaque twist stem and a plain foot, c.1770.
Toy Dinner Service
This toy dinner service was made in England by Ridgways. It consists of dinner plates, serving dishes, and sauce boats.
Trivet
An elaborate, three-legged, high trivet and toaster. It has a circular top with attached wooden handle and brackets near the handle support. A rod is attached to a pronged heart-shaped plate upon which ...
Trivet
A high leg triangular trivet. It consists of an iron triangle with three iron rods as legs and flat circular feet. It was used to support flat bottomed pans when cooking among the embers at the edge of ...
Trivet
A short three-legged triangular shape trivet. The triangle has an additional bar support across it. It was used to support flat bottomed pans when cooking among the embers at the egde of a fire.
Tumbler
A small English pewter tumbler, 1600-1799. It is a straight-sided vessel decorated with bands of horizontal lines and engraved with initials.
Tumbler
Drinking glass from Stourbridge, c.1963. An old-style tumbler, with a cut decoration of vertical leaf pattern. The decoration continues to make a faceted base.
Tumbler for Gin and Tonic
Drinking glass from Brierley Hill, c.1963. Tumbler decorated with panels of elipses and diamonds which continue onto the stem. It has a leaf starred foot.
Vegetable Dish
A circular brass dish, used for cooking vegetables, with a flat bottom. There are traces of Indian writing in ink on the underside.
Vinegar Bottle
A glass vinegar bottle with a silver spout and engraved tag reading: 'vinegar'.
Water Bottle
This is a water bottle from Egypt. It is made from hard leather, with a leather strap and a wooden peg as a stopper.