Browse Items (802 total)

  • Collection: Collecting the world

apron.jpg
Apron, in tapestry work, decorated with copper, beads and copper wire. Bulgaria or Yugoslavia? (see Museum's 'Slip Catalogue).

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saddle bag.jpg
Saddle-bag in plush and leather. Various designs in red, navy blue and fawn.

tray.jpg
Large round tray, beaten copper, tinned after engraving with two interlocking triangles in centre. Moslem date engraved on margin, and Arabic inscription.

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dish.jpg
Round dish used as a hanging decoration ('hoel'). Decoration: woman in centre, long dress, floral design, (black) drawing, other colours: white, brown, green, yellow.

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headdress.jpg
Bride's head-dress in tapestry. Profusely decorated with beads and coins. In use in villages in mountains. Bulgaria or Yugoslavia?

postage stamps.jpg
Turkish stamps, one hundred and nine, surcharged with the Albanian double-headed eagle after Albania declared her independence on November 28th, 1912.

spindle.whorl63205.jpg
Spindle whorl, decorated with floral and geometric designs, and figures of birds, in boxwood. Used in spinning.

Ptah.jpg
Figure of Ptah-Sokar in green glazed ware.

Ptah Sokar Osiris.jpg
Figure of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, originally painted, gilded and inscribed, crown missing, hawk in front

Ta urt figure.jpg
Figure of Ta-Urt or Taweret standing, on base that has incised inscription signifying: 'the beautiful Ta-Urt within heaven leader of the gods. Come thou to Thebes with the breath of life. Create all laws with the law of life and death in thy grasp.'
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