Divination Board
A rectangular wooden board, with slightly concave sides and a carved face on one side. It was made by the Nigerian Yoruba tribe and is based on a divination board but may be a tourist item.
Divination Board
A rectangular wooden board, with slightly concave sides and a carved face on one side. It was made by the Nigerian Yoruba tribe and is based on a divination board but may be a tourist item.
Egyptian Coffin Artefact
This carved wooden face is from an Ancient Egyptian coffin. Ancient Egyptian coffins were often painted with idealised images of the deceased.
Egyptian painted wood panel, upper section
This panel, from the tomb of Djed-Khonsu-lues-Ankh, is around 2,500 years old.
Together with the bottom section of the panel, it is a prayer asking for a supply of beer, bread and oxen for use in the ...
Faustulus Finding Romulus And Remus
Unknown artist Faustulus Finding Romulus And Remus, 1778 Oil on canvas 1050mm x 1260mm A landscape scene set by a river with many ruins and trees. The painting depicts the story in Roman mythology of ...
Figure. Leeds
Figure
Leeds
c.1790
A Leeds pearlware figure of Andromache in enamel colours. The figure depicts a woman standing leaning against a pedestal. She is mourning the death of her husband Hector, killed ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - title page, book 2
A Shakespeare source with a fine binding.
This volume's fine binding given to it by a nineteenth-century owner, is in green Morocco goatskin, with fine gold-tooling, including decoration along the ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Modell of witt [Decameron Book 1], 1625 - title page, p.A2r.
Italian stories provide source material
Giovanni Boccaccio is known chiefly for Decameron, which was written in 1353. This is a collection of a hundred tales told by ten people who have taken refuge ...
In a Wood so Green
Frederick Cayley Robinson (18th August 1862 - 4th January 1927) In a Wood so Green, 1893 Oil on canvas 755mm x 590mm In a Wood so Green plays on the traditional theme of a damsel being rescued by a knight ...
Irish Medal
Irish oval brass medal, 1879
Diameter 28mm
Medal struck to commemorate the apparition at Knock Parish Church, County Mayo, of Our Lady, St Joseph and St John on 21st August 1879. The obverse features ...
Irish Medal
Irish brass medal, c.1879
Diameter 22mm
Medal struck to celebrate the apparition at the Parish Church Knock, of Our Lady, St Joseph and St John the Evangelist on the 21st August 1879. The obverse features ...
Iron knife
This knife is unusual, because it has a long bone handle that extends halfway down the blade. This means that it feels a bit like a scalpel when it is held. Could this have been a special tool used by ...
Japanese Dolls
Not all dolls were made to play with. These Japanese Festival Dolls (hina-ningyo) represent Samurai warriors. They were brought out on 'Tango-no-skku' (Boys' Festival) and displayed in the home.
Festival ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Goosetree [barnacles], detail, p.1391, detail.
Truth and Myth in Shakespeare's books of reference: The Barnacle Goose Tree.
Shakespeare includes, in The Winter's Tale (4.4), a similar myth to Gerarde’s tale of a barnacle-goose tree in the ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Goosetree [Barnakle tree], p.1391.
The Elizabethan myth of the goose-tree.
Myth and legend, passed on by word of mouth until it was written down and becomes almost a fact, included the story that Gerarde records at the end of his herbal, ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - holly, p. 1155,detail.
Holly and its uses in Shakespeare's time.
There were twenty-seven holy days, or ‘holidays’ spread through the Elizabethan year, but the twelve days of Christmas, at the time of the winter ...
Khalsa Vaisakhi Tercentenary Celebrations
Colour photographThe tercentenary celebration (1699-1999) of the Khalsa Vaisakhi on 13 March 1999 - April 2000. Crowds of people are listening to music by a band. The Khalsa Vaisakhi celebration was ...
La Bibbia Ed Il Ricercatore
A booklet, from Italy, with a white cover and black printing.