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kirk ladle
Kirk ladle in wood, with long handle decorated and perforated for suspension. Used by elders for collecting offering in Corgaff Parish Church, Aberdeenshire. 'No one living in Corgarff seems to know its age or when it was last used' (letter from…
king head sculpture
Figure of head of a king, wearing the double crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, in mottled pink and black granite (rose granite).
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Children’s and Household Tales’ by the Brothers Grimm, 2nd edition
Kiln stands. Two simple cylindrical vessels of dark orange ceramic with a flared rims and bases.
One of two Shape: flared cylinder glaze (traces), colour: green. - same as other is in National Museums of Scotland. When discovered the vessels were filled with 'ashes' and may belong to the class of vessels found in Christian Graves of the 12/16…
Khnemu
Figure of Khnemu or Khnum in blue glazed ware, perforated for suspension. Reid (1912): ' Khnemu ... was represented as moulding man out of clay on a potter's wheel'.
Keystone. A large, trapezoid piece of beige sandstone. Carved into the upper surface is a male figure with curly hair wearing a robe, sitting cross legged and holding a long boxy object.
Figure of angel playing portative organ, carved in local sandstone. Keystone from an arch, originally part of the 15th-century work of Elgin Cathederal. This sculpture and ABDUA 17828 were recovered from the ruins and kept at Montcoffer House,…
Keystone. A large, thick octagonal block of reddish brown stone about a foot wide with a hole in the centre. On the sides are carvings of lambs, and on the surface is carved a cross with a heart between the arms, a ladder and a human figure.
From the chapel at Whitehill, New Deer, carving in old red sandstone, shape: octagonal, showing scenes of the Passion.
Key
Iron key, used with a Gaelic prayer book (see ABDUA 1863).