Plate
This brass plate is from Asia. The plate has finely scalloped edges, and an incised and painted decoration. It features a bunch of stylised flowers at the centre. This plate is one of two in the collection....
Plate. Chelsea
Plate Chelsea c.1758 A Chelsea, soft-paste porcelain plate with an Imari, 'brocaded Japan' style decoration. It has a blue underglaze with enamel colours and gilding.
Plate. Fenton Vivien. Thomas Whieldon
Plate Fenton Vivien c.1755-1775 A Whieldon type, earthenware, lead glazed plate from Fenton Vivien. It is mottled in brown, yellow and green tortoiseshell.
Plate. Fenton Vivien. Thomas Whieldon
Plate Fenton Vivien c.1755 A Whieldon type, earthenware, lead glazed plate from Fenton Vivien. It is decorated with a grey-green glaze on a fretted raised pattern of vines and oranges with foliage ...
Plate. Fenton Vivien. Thomas Whieldon
Plate Fenton Vivien c.1760 A whieldon lead-glazed plate from Fenton Vivien. It is a dark green tortoiseshell with a green and yellow splash. It has a raised decoration of tears on panels on the rim....
Plate. Fenton Vivien. Thomas Whieldon
Plate Fenton Vivien c.1765 A Whieldon lead-glazed plate from Fenton Vivien. It has dark green and brown mottling.
Plate. Fenton Vivien. Thomas Whieldon
Plate Fenton Vivien c.1750-1760 A Whieldon salt-glazed stoneware plate from Fenton Vivien. It has a brown mottled decoration with grey-green, light green and chocolate coloured patches. Around the ...
Plate. Fenton Vivien. Thomas Whieldon
Plate Fenton Vivien c.1740-1780 A Whieldon salt-glazed stoneware plate from Fenton Vivien. It has brown tortoiseshell decoration with patches of green raised decorated and a rim of marrow leaves and ...
Plate. Fenton Vivien. Thomas Whieldon
Plate Fenton Vivien c.1740-1780 A Whieldon salt-glazed stoneware plate from Fenton Vivien. It has a light brown mottled decoration and beaded rim.
Plate. Stoke-on-Trent. Aynsley
Plate Stoke-on-Trent c.1902 An Aynsley bone china plate made in England. It has painted and gilded decoration depicting the Coronation Chair, Stone of Destiny and the Throne of the House of Lords.
Pony and trap whirligig - detail
This whirligig is in the form of a man and woman sitting in a horse-drawn trap. It is made of polychrome wood and metal, and is mounted with a propeller. As the propeller turns, the horse's legs move ...
Population explosion
This is a patchwork on canvas showing a woman in bed, with seven young babies wrapped beside her. It is made from scraps of cloth by Elizabeth Allen, who made a series of collages that with a serious ...
Population Explosion - detail
This is a patchwork on canvas showing a woman in bed, with seven young babies wrapped beside her. It is made from scraps of cloth by Elizabeth Allen, who made a series of collages that with a serious ...
Portrait of Daniel Lambert
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting Daniel Lambert, the celbrated fattest man on record. In 1805 he resigned as Keeper of Leicester Gaol to both make a tour of England drawing large crowds, and ...
Pottergate, Richmond, Yorkshire
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a streetscene in Richmond, Yorkshire. The painting is by J. S. Newton and dates from 1847, and Newton included his father's business in the painting, as over ...
Pottergate, Richmond, Yorkshire - detail of figure
This is a detail of an oil painting on canvas depicting a streetscene in Richmond, Yorkshire. This is Harry Pickall, private postman to the Marquis of Zetland in 1847 when this picture was painted by ...
Potter's Workshop model
This is an automaton (moving) model of a potter's workshop in an angled case with a glass front. Two men are in the workshop and both move when operated by a key from the back.
When the key is turned, ...
Potter's Workshop model - detail of figure
Automaton model of a potter's workshop. Two men are in the workshop, and both move when operate by turnkey from the reverse.
The flywheel turned by the man on the right drives the potter's wheel. The ...