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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 ...
Iron Stand
Enamelled iron stand with pierced holes. It has three feet and mottled white-grey enamelling.
Ivory Ring
A ring of ivory (possibly boar’s tusk) used to stiffen a bag or purse. Two bronze plates and three rivets applied to the ring are probably repairs rather than decorative embellishments.
6th Century ...
Jacket
This is a dark green herring-bone women's jacket with badges and ribbons, 1942.
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 ...
Jar
A Delft (tin-glazed earthenware) ointment jar from London Wall. It has a grey-brown glaze with raised ribs around the body of the open jar.
Jar. Maw & Co
A small stoneware jar with a lid by Maws. The jar has a white rim and straight sides.
Jar. Ruskin Pottery
Jar Smethwick, West Midlands c.1924 An earthenware Ruskin Pottery pot-pourri jar with a yellow lustre decoration and grey mottling. The jar also has a perforated metal lid. Ruskin Pottery was established ...
Jephson Gardens Trophy and Trustees Minute Book
A silver goblet shaped trophy with two ornate handles. The goblet is accompanied by a hard-backed book containing the minutes of proceedings of the trustees of the Jephson Gardens. The book has a black ...
Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
A black and white photograph of the Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa. There is a tree in blosson to the left of the image and to the right there is a family walking past the lake fountains. 117mm x 164mm...
Jet Jewellery
Jet is a form of coal, which was formed from the compressed and chemically altered remains of plants that lived 170 million years ago.
The north eastern town of Whitby, Yorkshire, became the centre, ...
Jewellery Box
This is an Oriental building shaped box. The front of the house opens to reveal four removable boxes inside. The lid is in the shape of a roof, and can be removed to make two trays. There are also two ...
Jockey on a Bay Racehorse
This is an oil painting on panel depicting a jockey on a bay racehorse. The artist was from the English Provincial School and dates from about 1830. Framed size Height 366mm, Width 472mm, Depth 25mm.
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John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - garden detail on title page
Shakespeare set scenes in gardens such as this
Many scenes in Shakespeare’s plays are set in gardens. The formal lay-out of beds and hedges seen on this title-page engraving were familiar to ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Apples are described, p.1275, detail.
The uses of apples: Shakespeare's references to fruit.
The Herball of John Gerarde explains how apple trees cost little to maintain, but produce a fine crop for everyone. The orchards of Kent and of ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - apples woodcut, p.1274, detail.
Apples, at the end of a meal are mentioned in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Gerarde’s herbal includes all kinds of fruit and trees as well as flowers and vegetables, many of which ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Clove gilloflowers, p.472.
Carnations are the source for a Shakespearian argument in The Winter’s Tale.
Gerarde described carnations [pinks] with their ancient name ‘clove gillivors’ and Shakespeare’s ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - daffodils, p.108
b>Autolycus sings of daffodils in The Winter’s Tale
Autolycus, the former courtier turned pedlar, first arrives on the scene singing of the joys of spring: ‘When daffodils begin to peer... ...