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Portrait of Robert Gordon of Straloch. Oil painting of a balding white man with a pointed beard and moustache wearing a large white ruff and heavy black clothing with white cuffs decorated with lacework. He is holding his hand to his chest with the fingers slightly outspread.
Oil painting, portrait, full face, hand at chest, bearded and balding, wearing dark 'tunic' with lace ruff and cuff. Copy of Jamesone portrait in Robert Gordon's College, Schoolhill, Aberdeen. Knight's notes: '1707 Charles Whyts account paid (8…
Portrait of William Elphinstone. Oil painting of a middle aged white man wearing highly decorated and bejewelled bishop's hat and cloak in green and gold. The cloak is decorated with foliage patterns and images of saints. He has his hands in prayer and holds a crozier under one arm. He is next to a window out of which can be seen hills and a river with boats.
Oil painting, bust portrait, near profile L, of William Elphinstone (Bishop of Aberdeen from 1488-1514), wearing the Bishop's regalia and vestments, his hands clasped in prayer, rings on both hands. The Elphinstone coat of arms and motto 'Non…
Portrait of Thomas Reid. Oil painting of an elderly white man, wearing a black gown and a red turban, in a gilded frame.
Oil painting, 1/2 portrait, looking R, wearing red turban, dark coat, brown studio b/g. Copy of Raeburn portrait in Fyvie Castle or possibly portrait in Glasgow University (see Scottish National Portraits 1884 No325). Reid (1710-1796) b. Strachan, MA…
Comb. Flat comb with a wide arch shape made of tortoiseshell. Three stars are cut into the handle.
A large beard comb made of horn and dating from the second half of the 19th century. D-shaped with long teeth and a high back, which is decorated with three incised eight-pointed stars. Made by the Aberdeen Comb Works, Hutcheon Street.
Beaker. A glass beaker with a squat stem and foot. Small raised discs of glass decorate the lower outside of the body. The beaker is painted with rows of dots and arches in white, red and gold; and diamonds surrounded by scrolls. There is a coat of arms with the shield quartered, in two opposite quarters is a black bird foot on gold and in the other red and white vertical triangles. The shield has a crown on top and ribbons around it.
Originally the property of Paul Menzies of Kinmundy. The glass is possibly Venetian in origin. Decoration: extruded forms (applied) & coat of arms & linear & scroll designs. Cylindrical body, squat, with stem.
Inscription: ANNO 1667
Inscription: ANNO 1667
Beaker. A light bluish, fat glass beaker. It is painted with flowers, a gold band with rows of white and blue dots near the rim, the motto VIVENT VIVAS 1631 PM; and a coat of arms with the top half of the shield plain red and the lower half ermine, and a knight's helmet with a yellow bird's head on top and ribbons above the shield.
Decoration: flowers (red, blue, yellow, white, green) & coat of arms. Shape: bowed cylinder (flat pedestal). This glass was originally the property of Paul Menzies of Kinmundy and bears his coat of arms and initials. It was probably made in N Germany…
Bonnet. A white wool bonnet, flat, over a foot wide, with a pompom in the centre.
White wool broad bonnet (beret style). 'Worn by General Sir Alexander Leith' (Reid 1912).
Carpet sample. A square piece of tartan carpet. Mainly red, with a narrow yellow and white grid pattern, a grid of wide bands of light and dark brown and mossy green, and dark blue, green and teal where the bands intersect.
Tartan-like woven especially for Balmoral Castle. Not tufted. Red, brown, green x 3, heather, olive, blue, dark blue, yellow, white, black-purple.
Inscription: Old label: Piece of Queen Victoria's Bedroom Carpet/Balmoral Palace/October 1858
Inscription: Old label: Piece of Queen Victoria's Bedroom Carpet/Balmoral Palace/October 1858
Curtain sample. A rectangular piece of tartan curtain. White background, with narrow and wide vertical bands of light blue and red, and horizontal bands of dark blue and red, light yellow and black.
Tartan curtain from Balmoral Castle; white ground, red, black, yellow, turquoise-blue stripes in warp direction over pink and pale blue stripes in weft direction.
Inscription: Handwritten: Window Curtain Balmor..
Inscription: Handwritten: Window Curtain Balmor..
Pin. A pin made of bone, about three inches long. A small thistle is carved on one end.
Thistle-headed bone pin. Decoration on thistle head: cross-hatching.