Fork
This carved wooden fork is from Norway. It dates from 1700 - 1800. The fork has three prongs. It is decorated with an ornately carved and pierced handle and head, and linear incisions along the shaft ...
Frame
A Chinese or Japanese ornate carved wooden frame. It has been dismantled and is now in four lengths with one piece that makes up a second frame. The frame has deep relief carvings of figures and has been ...
Frogs
This is a watercolour, pen and ink on paper picture of two frogs sitting either side of a stream in a wood. It was painted by James Lloyd in 1960 and is inscribed 'J. Lloyd'. Lloyd began painting because ...
Garner's (The Marine Library), High Street, Margate
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting Garner's The Marine Library, High Street, Margate, Kent. This view of Margate's High Street was very popular during the 19th century, and artists often worked ...
Girl with Cherries
This is an oil painting on canvas of a young girl holding a bunch of cherries and a sprig of red flowers. Cherries are tradtionally held in the hand of the infant Christ and religous overtones like this ...
Glass Pen
This glass pen topped with a white rabbit was made by Chance Brothers of Smethwick. In 1832 Chance Brothers was the first company in Britain to adopt the cylinder method of producing sheet glass. The ...
Goblet
Drinking glass with an ogee-shaped bowl. It is richly engraved with polished flowers and an initial with a bee hovering. It has a plain stem and foot, c.1750-1800.
Grasshopper Case
This is a Chinese grasshopper case. It is made from delicately carved wood. There is a hole with scalloped edges at the top, and four viewing holes. Two of the viewing holes still hold magnifying glass. ...
Grave Goods
The grave goods from a female burial.
From left to right:
An iron knife with an bronze ferrule (strengthening ring) between the blade and the tang (point) that was inserted into the handle. 95mm ...
Grave Goods
Collection of metal objects including two small, matching, bronze square-headed brooches and a gilded pendant (right).
6th Century A.D.
1922/23 excavations (Grave 187)
Great Northern Railway
This is an oil painting on canvas dated 1881 depicting a Great Northern Railway (GNR) locomotive within a simplistic landscape. The locomotive is seen side-on and is a 4-2-2 Express Passenger locomotive ...
Great Northern Railway - detail
This is an oil painting on canvas dated 1881 depicting a Great Northern Railway (GNR) locomotive within a simplistic landscape. The locomotive is seen side-on and is a 4-2-2 Express Passenger locomotive ...
Great Square - Headed Gilt Brooch
A fine, gilded bronze brooch, elaborately decorated with interlaced patterns and stylised faces. The rounded terminal at the base of the brooch bears the eyes and forehead of a human face. Such impressive ...
Greeting Card Box
A large rectangular box with a hinged lid. The sides are covered in green velvet with ornate metal corner brackets and fastenings. The lid is covered in ruffled satin and has an inset mirror. It is ...
Greeting Card Box
This book-shaped box once contained greeting cards. People still disguise boxes as books to provide storage for treasured items.
Griff House, interior.
Griff House, interior.
Mary Ann's home between 1820-41, the family moved here when she was 4 or 5 months old. She referred to it as "..my old, old home" (Gordon Haight's George Eliot's Letters, Volume ...
H.M.S. Serapis
This wool picture on cloth depicts H.M.S. Serapis, a wooden ship which was converted to steam in the early part of the 18th century. This type of woolwork picture stitched on ship's canvas was an almost ...
H.M.S. Serapis - detail of boats
This wool picture on cloth depicts H.M.S. Serapis, a wooden ship which was converted to steam in the early part of the 18th century. This type of woolwork picture stitched on ship's canvas was an almost ...